Teacher Guide

Poe's Short Stories Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Consider reading Poe’s one novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.

Consider also reading some of the poets that influenced Poe, including Lord Byron, John Keats, and Percy Shelley.

You might pair Poe’s short stories with other Southern Gothic stories, like those of Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, and Shirley Jackson.

Consider pairing Poe’s Dupin stories with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.

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