My favorite poems is ’‘The Bells’’ and one of my favorite stories is ’‘The Cask of Amontillado’’, as well as ’‘Message Found in a Bottle’’. I’ve often wondered if Bram Stoker may have slightly been influenced by that story for the part where Dracula takes over a ship to come to England.
But yeah I love him. Sometimes I find his stories difficult to read, because the sentences just never end. But it’s a style, and since everything is so long and dragged out, it establishes the creeps pretty good. You know the guy’s timeless when he can scare people in the modern world with social relations that barely even exist anymore.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue is also interesting. For anyone who read it, you know what I mean, heh. It’s not so much about how crazy it is, rather than how the murderer is found…