![]() ![]() He often starts a story with a philosophic reflection, and the central purpose of the story is to illustrate the idea. ![]() Hoffmann, but his influence has been much more widespread, and interestingly, given this influence, he was the first well-known American author to earn his living through writing – though this did not prevent him dying in poverty and neglect (dressed in somebody else’s clothes). In fact he was preceded in some of these by E.T.A. Edgar Allan Poe is celebrated as the originator of several types of short story – the tale of Gothic horror, the science fiction story, the detective story, the tall tale, the puzzle, and the literary hoax. Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the name often given to collections of Poe’s stories. Short stories of Gothic horror and the macabre ![]()
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