Edgar Allan Poe was an American

romantic writer, poet, critic, and

journalist, generally recognized as
one of the universal masters of the
short story, of which he was one of
the first practitioners in his country.
He was a renovator of the Gothic
novel, especially remembered for his
horror stories.
Works:
The black cat:
The Black Cat is a horror story by the
American writer Edgar Allan Poe,
published in the Saturday Evening
Post newspaper in Philadelphia in its
number of August 19, 1843. Critics
consider it one of the most horrifying
in the history of police literature.