What are the characteristics of Poe's works?

American poet, novelist and critic. Born into a family of Jianghu artists, his parents died young and he was adopted by Allen and his wife. Received primary education in England, and then entered the University of Virginia for one year. He joined the United States Army and was chosen to send the image of Poe to West Point Military Academy. A year later, he was expelled from the military school and began to write professionally. After 1847' s death, his wife became more and more insane. Poe's poems are mostly melancholy and have strange images. The main poetry collections are Timur and Poetry Collection. His novels can be roughly divided into two categories: mystery novels and horror novels. Most of the stories he wrote took place in strange places, deliberately rendering the atmosphere of terror, mystery and sadness. The former includes the mask of bloody death, black cat, the collapse of Arthur building and so on. The latter includes Murder in Mog Street and Lydia. After his death, his creation attracted more and more attention and was regarded as the originator of mystery novels. In addition, the mysterious and horrible features in his works also inspired modernist writers.