Compared with other writers in the Romantic Period, Edgar Allen Poe is a strange and capable person, and he is not accepted as a poet and writer by other writers in early stage. In modern times, more and more people are interested in Allen Poe and his works. Many readers pay close attention to his short stories which take great effects on describing morbid sense and dark side of the characters. Allen Poe has achieved a great reputation of the originator for the west detective story. When we speak of Allen Poe, we come to his Gothic fictions, because Poe is skillful in Gothic writing style. This thesis discusses this writing style and analyzes his mysterious Gothic fictions. And the thesis analyzes Allen Poe‘s Gothic writing style in three parts. First it describes the source of Gothic. The second part analyzes Allen Poe‘s Gothic fictions from repetition and symbol. In this part, a lot of Poe’s original stories are discussed. The last part describes aestheticism in Poe’s Gothic fictions. No matter what rhetoric or Gothic aestheticism represents in Poe’s stories, they both express his unique writing style. This writing style strengthens the horror atmosphere in his stories, which helps readers understand love in human nature, different senses of beauty and its application.
