Bradbury began writing at the age of twelve. During his early career he wrote many horror novels. It accompanied him for the rest of his life and in every single one of his novels there is always a death, especially that of an important character or villain. He was in love with Poe because he was interested in how he wrote his poems. Poe's writing style was very unique and so Bradbury didn't want to be like all the other authors, he wanted to be different and that's why he claimed to write science fiction novels. Another writer who influenced Bradbury was Burrough, he wrote The Warlord of Mars which is a comic (Mesic). Bradbury wrote the sequel to Burrough's comic when he was twelve. He loved the comic so much that he couldn't wait to read the next one, which is why he wrote his own edition of the comic. Bradbury loved writing horror and his settings were mostly out of this world. Overall Bradbury was influenced by many authors and the themes of his novels came from Poe and