EDGAR ALLAN POE ( 19-01-1809 / 07-10-1849 )
British writer, considered the father of the police novel, innovator of the Gothic novel and horror stories, pioneer of science fiction, critic and literary theorist of acute intelligence, author of one of the most famous poems of all time (The cuervo), theoretician of both narrative and poetic language, his enormous influence has been revealed not only in the work of great narrators such as Dostoyevski, Kafka, Maupassant, Lovecraft, Borges, Ray Bradbury or Cortázar, but also in the versions and musical quotes (from Bob Dylan to Lou Reed, from Iron Maiden to Green Day), cinematographic (Roger Corman, Peter Weir, the Coen brothers, Tim Burton...), pictorial (Doré, Gauguin, Manet) or comics (Jonathon Scott Fuqua, Len Wein, Duight MacPherson, among others), which have made him a legendary and immensely popular character.

Stories like "Conversation with a Mummy", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Gold Bug", "Ligeia", "The Morgue Street Murders", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Black Cat" , "The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym" or "Manuscript found in a bottle" endorse Edgar Allan Poe as the most perfect author of stories.