Edgar Allan Poe is a well-known short story writer as well as poet in the 1800s and still today. He wrote many short stories, and all these stories always have a deeper meaning to what he says. This makes readers think more than they normally would in other short stories and also allows the reader to learn more indirectly. His life had never been a normal, happy one. He was in the same room as his brother when his mother died. He was there for two days with his own mother's corpse, which must have caused some trauma. It seems that he was also accustomed to the concept of death to lead him to write such stories. Some short stories that will be analyzed are The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum and The Oval Portrait. Edgar Allan Poe's childhood affected his style, leading him to write about sadness and grief. Because Poe's wife had died of tuberculosis, he became very sad and used drugs and alcohol to cope with his loss. What made him even more depressed was the fact that the day before Poe's wife Virginia died, he had written a letter to his aunt saying that there was no sign of improvement but that she was not yet dead. This event in his life must have given him the idea of ​​including women in his stories. When reading "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", the first thing that came to his mind was that this story was bizarre and obviously sick. There didn't seem to be any deep, dark meaning to it, though. An orangutan had gone mad and killed two women. It seemed simple. In "The Pit and the Pendulum", it seems that Poe feels trapped and hopeless because he tries to free himself, but cannot until the mice gnaw the ropes. It's as if he doesn't... in the middle of a paper... and such a sad life, expressed [sic] and compressed online - wouldn't it be better to say Poe reverently spirit simply Requiescat in Pace [?]” — (Alfred Lord Tennyson's response to the PoeMemorial Committee, February 18, 1876 Works Cited Ackroyd, Peter. Poe: a Life Cut Short. London: Chatto & Windus, 2007 . Giordano, Robert. "A Short Biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) June 27, 2005. April 5, 2009 Review of Nineteenth Century Literature. Ed. Lynn M. Zott. Vol. 117. Detroit: Gale. , 2003. P43-62. From the Literature Resource Center, Edgar Allan. Toronto, Canada: General Publishing Company, Ltd., 1991. “Primary Source Materials” Knowing Poe 2002. Historical Society. from Maryland April 3.2009.