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The life of Edgar Allan Poe was filled with many tragedies that influenced his writings that are now called the scariest of all horror stories ever written. These topics came to him so naturally, most likely because of all the deaths and sad events that occurred throughout his life that darkened his views. Edgar Allan Poe is very well known for his poem "The Raven". Most of his stories were about murder, revenge, torture, the plague, being buried alive, and insanity. Other well known works are “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “Annabel Lee,” and “Eldorado.” In 1839 his first series of short stories is published. He received no pay from the publisher but soon was rewarded for his work. In 1843 he received a one hundred dollar prize for his story "The Gold Bug".