本文结合美国小说家和诗人埃德加.爱伦.坡多舛的身世经历,着重分析他的代表作《厄舍古屋的倒塌》,探讨了坡的内心世界。由于凄凉的身世和逆境的生活,再加上天生的遗传性格,使得坡生性敏感,执拗,感情丰富而执著,富有天才的想象力和恐怖氛围的创造的能力,这些也使得他的以《厄舍古屋的倒塌》为代表的恐怖小说蒙上了深深的哥特式的怪诞和神秘色彩。 Combining with the experience of life of the American novelist and poet Edgar Ellen Pondo, this thesis focuses on the analysis of his representative masterpiece The Fall of the House of Usher and explores the inner world of the slope. Due to the desolate life and adversity of life, coupled with the inherent genetic character, making the slope sensitive, stubborn, emotional and persistent, genius imagination and the creation of terrorist atmosphere, which also makes his " The horror novel represented by the collapsing of ancient houses cast a deep gothic grotesque and mysterious color.