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Edgar Allan Poe's famous theory about novel creation is the "theory of effect", which means trying to establish a certain effect in the work first, and specific creation and thinking should be centered around this expected effect. This novel selection "Hypnotic Apocalypse (Selected Novels and Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe)" covers not only detective genres, but also horror, magical, psychological, symbolic, etc. Genres, which can roughly cover his overall style. "Hypnotic Apocalypse (Selected Novels and Novels by Edgar Allan Poe)" includes articles such as "William Wilson" and "The Hidden Heart".

This book is a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's representative novels, including "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", the first difficult case of detective novels, "The Black Cat" with one blood-red eye standing on a corpse, and "Leapfrog" in which the king's ministers were automatically bound and staged a bloody human barbecue. Once they enter Edgar Allan Poe's terrifying world, those who want to know the ending often cannot wait a second. Edgar Allan Poe used complicated brushwork to exaggerate the weird atmosphere, outline the bizarre plot, and the thrilling world that is both real and illusory.

Among Edgar Allan Poe's novels that explore love and hate, The Tell-Tale Heart (see the table of contents of this volume) is the most outstanding and famous. Edgar Allan Poe described these two completely different and even opposing emotions in a psychological sense that penetrated the back of the paper. It is based on this that Freud, the world-famous master of psychological analysis, developed his psychological theory that affects the world: Psychoanalysis. He explained that the so-called love and hate seem to be two different psychological emotions, but in fact they are just emotions intertwined in people's inner world. The two are sometimes inseparable, but the means of expression take different forms. This collection also includes another famous novel by Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat. The novel describes a gentle animal lover who eventually turned into an evil cat killer. The transformation process is full of amazing things. Edgar Allan Poe not only used love as the theme of his novels, but also wrote his works with death as an overriding theme. At the same time, with the major theme of death, he often uses some kind of mask as a tool to further develop the plot of his novels. For example, The Cask of Amontillado and The Masque of the Red Death in this series. Edgar Allan Poe's novels are full of ups and downs. Once you read them, you often feel inextricable. You can't concentrate on doing other things until you finish reading the entire novel. Some people say that when reading Edgar Allan Poe, one must be prepared for a serious illness. This is not unreasonable, because Edgar Allan Poe is profound and because of Edgar Allan Poe's grasp of human nature. Poe liked to use symbolic objects to show the world that they might have some meaning. He used Whirlpool to symbolize madness in MS. Foundina Bottle (see the book list of this series); in The Tell-Tale Heart, he used "eyes" to symbolize human nature, and so on. It can be said that Edgar Allan Poe's novels contain a huge amount of information. And all of this requires us to read and feel bit by bit.