Poe as a Comical Author

Edgar Allan Poe is the author of many well-known stories such as The Tell Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Black Cat. He has also composed many famous poems such as The Raven and Annabel Lee. These works are representative of what Poe is best known for, his horror filled stories. His use of the single effect catches the reader in a tale of terror in the first line of the story …

…for his humor than he is. In such literary works as Diddling, Loss of Breath: A Tale Neither in nor Out of ‘Blackwood’, and Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale With a Moral, Poe expresses his abilities as a humorist. In these stories, the single effect is not horror, as it is in his better known stories. It is instead humor, and Poe should be better known for his humor than he is.