Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University, and Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School||Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American short story writer, poet, and critic, best known for his tales of the macabre and supernatural. The late Frederick S. Frank was Professor Emeritus of English at Allegheny College. He published widely on Gothic literature and was the editor of the Broadview Edition of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother. Diane Hoeveler is Professor of English at Marquette University
