I hate reading Poe...

 
I don't understand how a person can get so much joy from taking his audience into the deep dark crevices of the worst nightmares they have yet to dream and then abandoning them to let them die a slow, gothic-lit death. It's morbid and cruel! Ok, I'm done ranting...

Poe knew all too well how to give a good scare. The best way to freak someone out and keep them paranoid beyond belief is to let their own imagination take control. Their own personal worst fears are put in place of what we don't know because we HAVE to provide an answer for everything. And then, like with most horror movies, the real thing doesn't do justice to what our imaginations came up with. Some of us do the same thing in everyday life, such as when preparing for an honors test and we are convinced the test will look nothing like what we expected when in reality we arrive to class to find we were prepared for the test all along :) at least, that's what I'm hoeing for...