Compare and Contrast: Edgar Allan Poe & Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle

keep the reader entertained with crazy stories. For instance his stories "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", it is about a murder of a mother and her daughter. It took place in Paris. They were both found dead in their home. One was brutally strangled and shoved up a chimney and the mother was nearly decapitated outside in the backyard of the house, with no robbery intentions. On the other hand, Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle writes a short story about a king being blackmailed by a woman who holds a photograph about the king committing an infidelity. So the king hires a detective to retrieve the picture. The detective goes through many loop holes in order to infiltrate the house of the person blackmailing the king.         Both stories contain exciting plots that makes it hard for you to put the book down, because of the interesting things that are currently happening as you go along. Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are similar in taste when it comes to writing a stories but once you have read a few stories from each of the authors you can notice some of the pretty noticeable differences. Poe is more of a laid back writer in a sense liberal and unprofessional in his style of writing, in other words he would write what he wanted the way he intended for it to be written. Conan on the other hand kept his work much more professional telling his stories in a much more deliberate way not as much humor as Poe, but less! Readers enjoy authors that can write a good story, but not just a good story, a story with good plots and interesting scenarios, also good delivery of the pieces of the puzzle that the reader is trying to put together. Poe seems to enjoy s giving one piece of the whole puzzle per chapter and as the story progresses the amount of information increases which allows you to involve yourself with the happening in the story. Even though he sometimes throws you off for a little bit off-track but puts you right back. Doyle on the other hand the other side, gives you small bits and pieces of the story’s conclusion but entirely but give you an idea of what might outcome. Makes you think like a detective and gives you the stripes for finishing the story (a great conclusion). To sum it all up, both authors know how to entertain their clients and know how to keep making them coming back for more. I really enjoyed reading “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” it was a psychological roller coaster with some really wacky friends to tag along. I would encourage students to read Edgar Allan Poe’s work.