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Edgar Allan Poe Essay

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Edgar Allan Poe invented the first Detective Story genre Poe published the first modern detective story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” In this tale, Poe established the prototype future mystery writers would follow. He was the Father of the Detective Stories. First, there would be a seemingly impossible crime, in this case a double murder occurring inside a room still locked from the inside. Then the detective character analyses the clues in order to solve the mystery. In 1835, Poe published “Hans Phaall, A Tale” the story of a trip to the moon. Although other writers had written fantastic stories, Poe added realistic scientific details to make his stories more believable. Thus the modern science fiction story was born. Much of Poe’s

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