What is the doppelganger in "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe?

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The Doppelganger is a sinister double--a mythic creature who assumes the physical or spiritual likeness of his doomed victim. Along with other literary conventions--the dark, brooding hero, the entombed maiden, the decrepit mansion--Poe borrowed the Doppelganger from the Gothic horror tales of Europe." http://www.buy.com/prod/the-raven-and-th鈥?/a>|||Lenore/Raven