What do you think about this guy and his work? Favorite story?

>and than the door had a knock
Did not age well, that I can tell you.

I think he's kinda concealed influential person.
The type of one that noone knows, but had a massive legacy left behind.

I'm going with the most plebeian opinion, but, yeah.
Murder in the rue morgue is my favourite.

a very bad writer and an even worse poet, which is a shame because his visions are exceptional and inescapable

https://archive.org/details/poe_poems_stl_librivox

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the gold bug.

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A true master. Great prose writer and a great mind. He's also funny as fuck too

It's a shame most people probably judge him by only a handle of poems and short stories.

Ligeia. I always thought his prose was a little tacky but the message behind his stuff is so scary it really is terrifying to think a guy like him did live and write.

Some of his lesser known stories are really good like "William Wilson", "Eleonora", and "The Domain of Arnheim". Overall a great writer with a strong vision imo.

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Interesting that he generated discussions again recently with Eureka and his proto descriptions of The Big Bang, Space/Time and the solution to Olber's Paradox.

I find him to be nearly unreadable