No writer knew more about pain and horror than Edgar Allan Poe. He lived most afraid of the things in his own mind. Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 in Boston, USA. His parents died when he was young, and he went to live with the Allan family in Richmond. From 1838 to 1844 Poe lived in Philadelphia, where he wrote some of his most famous stories, such as The Fall of the House of Usher and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and worked for different magazines. Then he moved to New York City, where his poem The Raven soon made him famous. He was always writing, and worked for newspapers and magazines, but he never made any money from his books of poems and stories. When Virginia died in 1847, Poe began to drink heavily and tried to kill himself in 1848, and died the following year.…
