Setting and Poe

I really want to talk about Poe, though I already have in two other blogs, and I should save some of it for my presentation.

But I will say this: Poe's works are the best examples I know of that use setting as another character and use this new character to tell a story. The action in "The Masque of the Red Death" doesn't even start until nearly the last page!

Now onto something else though. I liked this quote: "Setting is often essential and vital in the story." Well duh! You can't have a story without some setting. I would like to try to write one though.

SO