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.
In 1999, the world population passed the six billion mark. Latest official current world population estimate, for mid-year 2013, is estimated at 7,095,217,980. The chart below shows past world population data back to the year one and future world population projections through the year 2083. World Population Growth.