He considered his own greatest work not to be one of his gothic tales but rather his epic prose poem "Eureka," in which he expounded his own personal view of the cosmographical nature of the universe.
Pour lui, ses contes gothiques ne font pas partie de ses plus grandes œuvres. Mais en faisait partie son poème épique en prose : « Eurêka », dans lequel il expose sa vision sur la nature cosmographique de l'univers.