Because of its aesthetic implication, Poe's creation has a far-reaching influence on French symbolism masters Delaire and Malamei. His Gothic novels not only combine popular elements such as suspense, romance, murder and horror, but also express his unique creative ideas, showing concern for the irrational feelings of people in early American native culture and capitalist society driven by material desires, so that his Gothic novels break the boundaries between serious novels and popular novels to a certain extent and realize spiritual communication with readers in a broader aesthetic space. Edgar Allan Poe successfully combined Gothic novels with detective novels, which had a great influence on later writers. Many writers, such as Edith Wharton, william faulkner, eudora welty, Flannery OConnor, Hart Crane and Stephen King, have borrowed Poe's Gothic style in their works. All these show that Poe's Gothic novels have a great influence on the level of reception aesthetics and have a strong aesthetic function.
The main figures influenced by Poe are Conan Doyle, Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, jules verne, robert louis stevenson, Hitchcock, tim burton and Edgar Vajpore. Poe's most famous literary theory is "the theory of effect". Poe's literary thought, death aesthetics and horror aesthetics. Edgar Allan Poe tried to establish an effect in his works, and then he thought about creation to pursue this effect. In the preface of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, he said that "most of his works are well thought out and painstaking". Slope and ambrose bierce (1842 ~ 19 14? ) and H.P. Lovecraft (1890 ~ 1937) are called the three major American horror novelists.