He invented his own Poe style, which I'm sure was influenced by whatever ideas people had about good stories at the time, but he brought his own interpretation

He invented his own Poe style, which I'm sure was influenced by whatever ideas people had about good stories at the time, but he brought his own interpretation to it. It sounds like people remember Poe's interpretations and those became stories that defined those genres, with a nod to whatever came before it.