Adaptations of Edgar allan poe

’ Questioning as well as promoting the dark powers of the imagination, Poe’s fictions leave the boundaries between reality, illusion, and madness unresolved, rather than, in the manner of his contemporaries, domesticating Gothic motifs or rationalizing mysteries. His subjects are varied, exploring particularly individual cases of delusion and more general anxieties about death. Doubles and mirrors are used to splendid effect, while scientific theories are employed to present natural sources of horror in which detection uncovers criminal rather than supernatural mysteries. ’

Gothic – Fred Botting