User blog comment:RainingSlayerBlood/Friendly debate/@comment-25052433-20150212023315/@comment-26030957-20150219153520

Rebuttle to myself:  It's not about whether one is true literature or not. Is creepypasta literature? Most would agree not, but just look at Candle Cove, that story is probably twenty years old and it is still passed around and read and loved and will be for many years to come. The question was who is better- and that leaves a lot open to debate. When Poe was alive he was scoffed at by nearly all his contemporaries, for instance Walt Whitman derided him as a morbid joke. Only in France was Poe truely appreciated during his life. I'd like to remind you he died penniless, something King will definitely not do. Banning has a great point about King's other genres (I'd also throw Eye of the Dragon out there for child friendly fantasy). But Poe did invent the detective story, wrote many odes to love (Hop Frog being one of my favorite deranged love stories of all time), mastered the short horror story, and, as has been pointed out here, was also a master poet. A tough contest. So, who is going to write the epic rap battle of history: King vs Poe?