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    style is not for all writers, however those able to express their gothic stories clearly went on to become some of the most well-known authors in history. For example, Edgar Allen Poe is seen today as one of the greatest writers of all time and that started with his gothic story The Raven. The short story The Raven by Poe possessed one of the very first gothic elements ever used. This element, psychological issues after death, is something that has been and still experienced. The raven in the…

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    Stephan King Stephan King is a extremely well known author and has been always known for his horror stories. His most well known stories include IT, The Shining, Salem's Lot and several other books and stories. His horror writing is credited to him seeing his friend get hit by a train. He has no memory of the event but he came home scared and the next day the parents found out about the boy. He was inspired to write also when he found a HP. Lovecraft book that was his dad's. He said “I knew…

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    Berry Gordy Biography Berry Gordy was born on November 28 , 1929. He is 87 years old. Early Life: Berry Gordy was born the seventh of eight children in a close knit,hardworking family. Unlike his siblings, Berry struggled in school. He loved music, but he got kicked out of his high school.After…

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    departing in life. Edgar A. Poe married his tween cousin when he was in his mid-twenties. He also experienced the deaths of three dear and close loved ones. His great frequency of alcohol abuse could do damage to the theorem as well. Poe died of alcoholism and can be backed up from his life and where he was located four days before he died. Poe did not die of rabies, as rumored. This is an absolute false theory and is really just an idea by people who did not want Poe to be remembered by his…

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    Ted went to the University of Puget Sound (UPS) taking courses in psychology and Oriental studies, Bundy transferred to Seattle's University of Washington (UW). While in college Ted worked as a grocery bagger and shelf-stocker at a Seattle Safeway store, Ted also worked as a night-shift volunteer at Seattle's Suicide Hot Line for one of his classes. While working for the Suicide Hotline Ted met Ann Rule. “He began a relationship with fellow university student ‘Stephanie Brooks’ (a pseudonym),…

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    Edgar Allan Poe wrote the poem “ Spirits of the Dead.” The reason that it is important is if one person dies, his or her spirit will come out of the body. Although, it can help by reading what the poem means, and what it stands for. This paper is being written by Edgar A. Poe. He wrote this before his death, and wanted to show with no emotion. The people will affect a reader by emotions, but in the “ Spirits of the Dead” poem , it is unenjoyable, depressed, and devastating feeling. Why everyone…

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    Emily Dickinson was born on December/10th/1830 in Amherst Massachusetts. Dickinson’s family originated from New England. Dickinson’s grandfather Samuel Dickinson, was widely known as the inventor of Amherst College. Dickinson’s father worked and served in Amherst as a state legislator. Dickinson has 2 siblings named William Austin, Lavinia Norcross. Dickinson was a great student at Amherst Academy for 7 years and then went to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for 1 year. The real reason on why…

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    Analysing a Ballad Through its emotional appeal, melancholy themes, and suspenseful plot, The Raven provides an audience with an introspective literary experience. Poe is able to exploit the Gothic setting of the poem to establish a vivid atmosphere of obsession, undying devotion, madness, and loneliness. In the beginning of the poem, the narrator is grieving the loss of his beloved Lenore on a dark December night, while attempting to read in his somnolent state. Suddenly, he is awoken by a…

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    The “Masque of the Red Death” is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1842. It is a haunting tale of people who tried and failed to escape death. This story was given life in a video published on Vimeo. However, the video was altered and changed from the original version. These changes somewhat changed the meaning and effect of the story on its audience. The effect was less haunting and the video lacked Poe’s single effect that all of his works contained. The video lacked crucial features…

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    Edgar Allan Poe's “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a story about a man, which is the narrator, and who for seven nights, goes to the bedroom of the old man to watch him sleep. He would stand in the door watching the man sleep with his light shining just enough to see the sleeping man’s eye, the “Evil eye” according to the narrator. Every time he went into the man’s room, he could not see the eye because his eyes were closed. The narrator said he did not hate the old man, and that he actually loved him…

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