Edgar Allan Poe Very is Effective at Creating Suspense In Edgar Allan Poe's tragic life many events occurred that inspired his popular dark and terrifying horror stories. Even at a very young age Poe lost both his parents, his mother died and his father abandoned him. Poe's wife also died due to tuberculoses. Effected by events from earlier in his life, Poe thought nature was dark,sinister and mysterious. He thought man was falwed. Poe also never experienced financial success as a writer and Poe was jealous of other writers. I think Poe was confused by life and to try to explain it, he wrote stories about his thoughts. Poe was jealous of other writers works and their success. So he riduculed them and called them “hacks”. From the start of