Edgar Allen Poe was an English short story writer whose work reflected the traditional Gothic conventions of the time that subverted the ambivalence of the grotesque and the arabesque. Through the thematic conventions of the Gothic genre, literary devices and its author himself, Edgar Allan Poe's texts are considered sublime examples of Gothic fiction. The Gothic genre within Poe's works, such as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, and The Raven, elicits the pervasive nature of the dark side of individualism and the resulting invasion of madness. Gothic tales are dominated by fear and terror and explore themes of death and decay. Gothic pushes boundaries into the realm of the unknown, arousing extreme emotions through the catalyst of dissociation and subversion of presence. Gothic literature uses supernatural themes to create a brooding setting and atmosphere of fear. The gothic dimensions of Poe's fictional world offered him a way to explore the human mind in extreme situations, thus arriving at an essential truth. The Gothic theme of the importance of the intuitive and the emotional and the rejection of the rational and the intellectual is prevalent in The Raven, The Black Cat, and The Tell-Tale Heart. Added to this is the convention of transgressive and invasive madness, omnipresent in Gothic literature. In The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator achieves a kind of psychological doubling: an identification with the old man at the moment he disturbs him in the middle of the night, and a psychopathic detachment, evidenced by the feeling of triumph and euphoria. which precedes the murder in the song “..a noise as strange as this aroused uncontrollable terror in me”. Hysteria is pertinent in Gothic texts, a… middle of paper… a Gothic convention of decay. Compared to the Gothic conventions present in The Raven, The Black Cat, and The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe's texts are considered examples of Gothic literature. Through the use of literary techniques and devices, Poe effectively conveyed the thematic concerns of Gothicism. Poe's lyrics explore the inept fear of the unknown, the decay of an individual's character, and the psychotic relationship between madness and the expression and instigation of emotions. The gothic conventions within his work complement each other and work together to express themes related to the gothic, as the setting is achieved with the help of the gothic conventions of supernatural motifs and references to darkness. Creating a pastiche of forms and conventions, Edgar Allan Poe's works are considered sublime paradigms of Gothic fiction.