埃得加·爱伦·坡(Edger Allan Poe)是19世纪美国小说家、诗人、评论家。文学界将其誉为美国短篇小说发展史上的开拓者,此外,他对世界上许多国家短篇小说的发展都产生了一定的影响。他的短篇小说多描写变态心理,渲染恐怖气氛,情节离奇,叙述生动。其中《厄舍古屋的倒塌》曾被列为世界最杰出的短篇小说之一。小说不寻常的内容,作者丰富的想象、新奇的写作手法都引起了广大读者 Edger Allan Poe is a 19th-century American novelist, poet and critic. Literary circles hailed it as a pioneer in the development of short stories in the United States. In addition, he had a certain influence on the development of short stories in many countries in the world. His short stories and more to describe abnormal psychology, rendering the atmosphere of terror, the plot bizarre, narrative vivid. One of the most outstanding short stories in the world was “The Fall of the House of Usher”. Unusual content of the novel, the author’s rich imagination, novel writing techniques have aroused the readers