In the horror fictions of Edgar Allan Poe, readers enjoy the unique aesthetic experience of terror. One of Poe’s most famous tales, The Fall of the House of Usher, is the typical representative of such kind of fiction. The carefully chosen...

He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted h...

《厄舍府的倒塌》和《呼啸山庄》都是十九世纪美英文学史中的不朽作品。爱伦·坡在《厄舍府的倒塌》中塑造了一组以荒野、厄舍府为代表的意象，艾米丽·勃朗特也在《呼啸山庄》中...