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Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
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Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

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Ted Gioia
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Edgar Allan Poe

How influential is Edgar Allan Poe? Let’s look at the numbers. The mystery or detective story, a category virtually invented by Poe, represents 10% of fiction book sales in the current day. The horror genre, in which Poe sets the standard for all later writers, accounts for another 3-4%. The suspense or thriller story, another specialty o…

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