Compare and contrast Washington irving an Nathaniel Hawthorne?

Edgar Allan Poe has more genres under his belt, so I'll compare just his works of Horror to King's. Both like to deal with some sort of evil in different ways. Poe likes madness and insanity in some of his short stories, while King also does the long, drawn out development of a character on the road to evil or (again) insanity. Both are okay with gore, though for Poe I based that only on 'The Black Cat'.