Edgar Allan Poe shaped many genres of American literature and was a master of the creepy setting. Poe is especially well known for reshaping horror fiction from supernatural melodramas to psycho-thrillers exploring the minds of murderers. Horror stories often contain scenes in cemeteries. Poe took readers a giant step farther into creepiness in his 1846 short story The Cask of Amontillado by situating it deep underground, in dark, damp catacombs littered with skeletal remains.
World population is expected to reach 8 billion people in 2023 according to the United Nations (in 2026 according to the U.S. Census Bureau). The current world population is 7.5 billion as of March 2017 according to the most recent United Nations estimates elaborated by Worldometers.
Demographics of the World 2016. As of 1 January 2017, the population of the world was estimated to be 7 486 520 598. This is an increase of 1.20 % (88 744 236 people) compared to population of 7 397 776 362 the year before. In 2016 the natural increase was positive, as the number of births exceeded the number of deaths by 88 545 673.