Edgar Allen Poe wrote short stories, poems and a novel. Poe’s works are considered part of the dark romanticism movement. Throughout his work, Poe includes gothic elements such as grotesque, revenant and aspects of the devil. Poe displays a grotesque description when the narrator buries the axe in his wife’s brain. The narrator, “Withdrew [his] arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain”(The Black Cat). The presence of grotesque is shown here cause he kills his wife without hesitation. Although there is grotesque in this short story, there is also this gothic element in “The Cask of Amontillado”. Gothic components are shown throughout, “The Cask of Amontillado”. This short story shows grotesque when nobody attacks Montresor without