What influence did Edgar Allan Poe have on literature?

American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) had an immense influence on literature, particularly in transforming European Romantic literary traditions into a distinctly American form of Romanticism and Gothic storytelling. He is credited with pioneering the modern detective story (with his 1841 story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”), developing the Gothic horror story, and being a significant early contributor to the science fiction genre.

His famous works include the novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), the poem “The Raven” (1845), and the short stories “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839), “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843), and “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846).