Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Alan Poe, was a writer who wrote a lot of horror stories. For example, The Tell Tale Heart, The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, etc.
This man was an American, who was born on January 19, 1809 and died on October 7 1849.
His father died after he was born, and his mother left him when he was a kid.
The man who adopted him was called John Allan who lived with Edgar.A.P and his wife in The United Kingdom. He got married with a woman, who died soon. After that he got married again but now with his cousin. He enrolled in the USA army, but he left it because he was alcoholic.
He wrote stories for many different magazines.

He wrote all his stories with things in common, like the place where the main character hid the body or the person who he killed(The Cask o Amontillado-The Cat). His style of writing was very depressing (for me Agos) and very good (for Simon). In his stories he used to include some events that had happened in his own life.
His stories were of horror because his life was not a good one, he probably needed some help to get over his dark feelings.

STORIES OF ALLAN POE:
THE TELL TALE HEART:
This story is about a man who was crazy. And he wanted to kill an old man because he hated his eye. And everyday he went to the room of the old man and saw his eye. Finally he killed him , cut him into pieces and hid him under the floor. Then he confesses after hearing the beat of the old man´s heart inside his head.

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO:
This story is about a man who insults another man and the man who was insulted takes revenge and ends killing him. One puts the other between two walls and burying him alive.

We have different opinions on the project but we try to do our best!!!!!

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Agostina and Simon