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Matt Mullins: On Edgar Allan Poe and the Short Story

by Matt Mullins | May 23, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing

There would be no National Short Story Month without Edgar Allan Poe, the man at the fountainhead of genre.  In his criticism and his stories themselves, Poe essentially defined what the short story should do: become a bomb in the reader’s hand that explodes with...