埃德加·爱伦·坡被称为是美国文学上一位奇才。对于短篇小说,坡做出的贡献在当时无人能比,他是第一位把短篇小说当作文学体裁并对它进行革新的人。他的小说继承了哥特式小说的传统,主题大多都与死亡、神秘和恐怖相关。在此基础上,坡将哥特式的恐怖内化到人的内心世界,逐渐形成了独具一格的以心理恐惧为题材的心理分析小说。 Edgar Allan Poe is known as a Wizards in American literature. For the short story, Slope made no contribution at that time. He was the first to take a short story as a literary genre and innovate it. His novels inherit the tradition of Gothic novels, most of which are related to death, mystery and terror. On this basis, Po will internalize the gothic horror into the inner world and gradually form a unique psychoanalytic novel with psychological fear as the theme.