Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1809...
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Did you know Poe takes much of influence from the Gothic tradition . "The Fall of the House of Usher" is considered Poe's most famous work. This highly unsettling macabre work is considered as the masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon Gothic literature.