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If you’re interested in reading Poe’s non-poetry fiction, I put together all of his short stories and novellas into a free/libre compilation for Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fict...

Having said that, I personally prefer the writing of Leonid Andreyev (described as Russia’s answer to Poe). Coincidentally, I’ve put together a short fiction compilation for him too: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/leonid-andreyev/short-fict...



Thank you for the links. So I take it Andreyev is also gothic fiction or do his similarities to Poe lie in some other aspects?


Andreyev was writing 75 years after Poe, so it’s not exactly the same genre (although remember that Poe, while most famous for gothic horror, also wrote in pretty much any genre, including basically inventing the fictional detective). What they do share though is a finely honed sense of the macabre, and the ineffable nature of reality. If we’re picking influential American authors, then it’s fair to place Andreyev mid-way between Poe and Lovecraft, especially with stories like The Wall[1] or The Red Laugh.[2]

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/leonid-andreyev/short-fict...

[2] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/leonid-andreyev/short-fict...




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