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Edgar Allan Poe

Your Literary Style Is 0% Realistic, 0% Philosophical, and 0% Psychological!

Your literary style mostly resembles Edgar Allan Poe's. Poe's stories and poems are, for the most part, examples of fantastic realism. The stories or poems often have elements of the fantastic, such as spontaneously crumbling houses, ghosts, and talking ravens, but they also retain a realistic interpretation, and the fantastic elements are almost always realistically explained away in the texts to make them more believable. Regardless, his works are still inherently creepy and reek of the mystical. What further adds to their creepiness is Poe's brooding description of psychological torments, ranging from men anguishing over the death of lost loves to the excessive, delusive guilt felt by criminals. Your literary style is similar in these respects, focusing heavily on the fantastic and relying on horrifying psychological descriptions.

Some stories or poems you may enjoy: "The Raven", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Tell-Tale Heart".

The other literary styles:

George Orwell / Jorge Luis Borges / Franz Kafka / F. Scott Fitzgerald / Fyodor Dostoevsky / Herman Melville / Albert Camus

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