User blog comment:RainingSlayerBlood/Friendly debate/@comment-26030957-20150212013052

This is an excellent blog. In the Shining, Stephen King, though he quotes Poe in the beginning, later in the novel calls Poe the "great American hack." Well, many reviewers today now consider Stephen King to be the great American hack.

I think it is also important to note that Poe was not just a poet, he wrote many short stories. He predates Doyle's Sherlock Holmes with the detective story in the Murder of the Rue Morgue.

Both are legends of the horror genre. Both of their work has entered the common psyche of humanity. In the end, though, I don't think King will ever be considered literature. His work has too much of a comic book vibe. I think he would agree, he often cites 1950s horror comics as his main inspiration and if one reads EC comics they will see many stories that he has taken on as his own. As for my opinion, I find it too hard to judge, being that their times and cultures were so diverse. I do truely love them both very much, though.

Thrashed,thrasher, I would love to see more blogs of this nature appear here.