According to NPR, both Poe and Doyle have generated mountains of literary criticism over the years, but Darkness Becomes Bright and Sleuth-Hound remind us there's a lot left to discover about these masters.
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We are still puzzling over the mysteries of Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle
By Marcus Reed
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The report, filed in our Culture section, was first published by NPR on Monday, November 9.
Background
Edgar Allan Poe: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature.
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, which are milestones in crime fiction, and for his first work featuring Professor Challenger, The Lost World (1912), which gave its name to a subgenre of speculative fiction.
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