Edgar Allen Poe is not crazy

Edgar Allen Poe is known world-wide for his demented, sick, detailed stories. People think he writes such gory stories because his mind doesn't work right and he's messed up in the head. I believe he wrote this way because he had personnel experience. He lost a lot of loved-ones to tuberculosis and if you noticed most of his work is about blood and death. In Poe's "Masque of the Red Death" he gives a small hint that tuberculosis was the plague killing everyone off. Also, it's something new that nobody else would dare to think of. He's not insane, he's a genius really. People just can't get deep down into his stories and read in between the lines. Such detailed stories deserved to be recognized instead of brought down.