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.
According to the census held in 2012, the population of the country was estimated to be 29,195,895 - the 43rd largest in the world. But the recent estimates for 2016 indicate the total population has grown to over 31 million.