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Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and critic whose mastery of atmosphere, psychological terror, and tightly plotted narrative reshaped modern fiction. Best known for poems and tales such as "The Raven," his Gothic short stories and macabre imagination—together with the Dupin mysteries—helped invent detective fiction and anticipated strands of science fiction and modern horror. A trenchant literary critic who articulated the idea of a calculated "unity of effect," Poe championed originality and rigorous craft in both poetry and prose. His influence reverberates across literature and popular culture, inspiring figures from Baudelaire to Doyle and Lovecraft and leaving a lasting mark on fields as diverse as cryptography and cosmology.
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