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Poe was the classic horror writer during the 1800's. He is known as the first horror writer in the United States. He is also known as the first writer of detective stories. Poe set the precedent for the horror writers in the USA. Stephen King followed in Poe's ....

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.... on the other hand, has very short sentences and almost every paragraph has a couple sets of dialogue. King tells the story through the characters speech. Poe tells the story through the explanations not through speech. Even though they have differences, they also have some similarities. Both writers use a part of nature that is out of control to overcome people. In Poe's story it was a simple whirlpool while in King's its was just the flu bug. These things of nature became bigger and destroyed the people in the story. They use nature and people dying to make it suspenseful. They use nature killing people in their stories because it rarely ....