Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic Interiors

This study focuses primarily on architectural and interior design in Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic fiction. Poe's Gothic is one of ciphers and codes, octagonal red rooms and decaying walls. A fantasia of entrapment that exceeds the ordinary limited space. His houses breathe, expand and encrust their inhabitants. And it is not just a mathematical disorder...the architecture of every space is carefully chosen to match the personality of its owner. Poe's space is an aesthetic movement.