Words to Describe Edgar Allen Poe"Hoaxer, liar, impostor and plagiarist" (45) are the words used by Kaplan to describe Edgar Allan Poe. Poe, as he claimed to be, was the best when it came to deception and perversion. In living his life and even in his way of negotiating death, Poe was a prisoner of the little devil of perversity. But with art as a shield, the realms of perversity became a refuge for his tormented soul. . . Perversion is a complex strategy of the mind, with its own unique principles for regulating negotiations between desire and authority. To achieve its goals, the perverse strategy makes use of mechanisms of mystification, concealment and illusion, characteristic expedients of Edgar Allen Poe's stories. Perverse strategy is, as Poe might have said, a faculty of the human soul. (46)Although a good number of critics passionately despise Edgar Allen Poe, almost everyone who has read his creations has given him credit for being a genius. He was the first to write a detective novel and short stories dealing with split personality or split consciousness long before the issue was well known to common people. He managed to capture the public's imagination by exploring the mysterious psychological world of the individual: madness, desperation, pain, inner chaos, etc. His works, devoid of any sense of right or wrong, have had a great influence on certain types of people. popular fiction, with a detective story at its center. From French Symbolists, such as Rimbrad and Mallarmé, to American writers, such as Bierce, Melville, and Faulkner, they were influenced by Poe's writings. It also inspired famous philosophers such as Frederick Nietzsche and George Bernard Shaw. Just to name a few, Gothic architecture, psychological anomalies, hidden... in the middle of the paper... and left Graham's Magazine" (Bloom 14), returning to her old ways, as well as poverty Ironically, in 1847, Virginia died of tuberculosis, the same disease responsible for his mother's death. Bibliography: Harold, "Biography of Edgar Allan Poe's Major Short Story Writers," 1999. 46 -- 53.Kaplan, Louise of Usher." NewEssays on Poe's Major Tales. Ed. Kenneth Silverman. Edgar Allan. "Lenore." The Raven and Other Poems. 1845 ------, ed. "The Raven and Other Poems". ." Bloom's major short story writers. Ed. Harold Bloom. Broomall: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999.46 -- 53