Edgar Allan Poe

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The classic poems and spine-tingling stories of a Gothic American master collected in one volumeOf all the American masters, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation, as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age o...

• Aug-2021
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• Mar-2018
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of America's greatest and most dark and mysterious writers. The circumstances surrounding his untimely death are still unknown, as is what made him tick. Part of the American Romantic Movement, Poe is best known for...

• Aug-2017
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• Aug-2016
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"With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion." -- Edgar Allan Poe. Containing such famous works as "The Raven", "Lenore", "Annabel Lee", and "To Helen", this complete collection of poetry by Edgar Allan Poe encapsulates the career of one of ...

• Oct-2015
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'Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant. The old man's terror must have been extreme! It grew louder, I say, louder every moment! --do you mark me well? I have told you tha...

• Oct-2015
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King Pest is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales...

• Aug-2015
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This vintage book contains a collection of short stories written by Edgar Allen Poe. Displaying a more comedic side of Poe's writing, these masterful stories are highly recommended for all lovers of the form, and constitute must-reads for fans of Poe...

• Aug-2015
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This vintage book contains a fantastic collection of short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, including 'Thou art the Man', 'The Black Cat', 'The Gold-Bug', 'The Imp of the Perverse', 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', ...

• Aug-2015
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A collection of short stories horrifying enough to make your skin crawl, Edgar Allan Poe's chilling tales are not for the faint of heart. Containing Poe's most famous works, including 'The Fall of the House of Usher'.Most famous for his stories of my...

• Aug-2015
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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar is about a mesmerist, who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also, to a certain degree, a hoax as it was published without claiming ...

• Aug-2015
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How to Write a Blackwood Article is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. B...

• Aug-2015
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This book contains Edgar Allen Poe's 1840 short story, "The Journal of Julius Rodman". It is the fictionalised chronicle of an unprecedented journey across the the Rocky Mountains in 1792. It describes a series of baffling events, novel vicissitudes,...

• Aug-2015
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This is not a typical Poe story. It is more or less a romantic description of a house and its surrounding landscape. A young couple are moving in......

• Aug-2015
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After an unnamed illness, the narrator sits in a coffee shop in London. Fascinated by the crowd outside the window, he considers how isolated people think they are, despite "the very denseness of the company around". He takes time to categorise the d...

• Aug-2015
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This book contains Edgar Allen Poe's 1839 short story, "The Man That Was Used Up". One of Poe's satirical works, it follows the unnamed narrator as he seeks out a famous war hero and inventor called John A. B. C. Smith. When descriptions of t...

• Aug-2015
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The narrator -- a Mesmer -- entrances a sickly patient who claims to be privy to a wealth of divine and esoteric knowledge, wanting to document his knowledge before he dies. The Mesmer proposes a series of questions relating to the workings of the un...

• Aug-2015
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An unnamed narrator marries Morella, a woman with great scholarly knowledge who delves into studies of the German philosophers Fichte and Schelling, dealing with the question of identity. Morella spends her time in bed reading and teaching her husban...

• Aug-2015
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The story opens with the narrator recounting a summer sea voyage from aboard the ship ''Independence''. The narrator learns that his old college friend Cornelius Wyatt is aboard with his wife and two sisters, though he has reserved three state-rooms....

• Aug-2015
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The story follows a female narrator who, accompanied by her tiny poodle and 3-foot-tall servant, comes across a gothic cathedral whilst walking in a city. When she ascends to the top of the steeple, she attempts to look through a small opening with h...

• Aug-2015
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The narrator is invited by a doctor to witness the unwrapping of a mummy at a private residence. After arriving, he and the assembled group of excited men begin opening the sarcophagus and eventually unveil the mummified body, which appears to be sur...

• Aug-2015
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The narrator, 22-year old Napoleon Buonaparte, changes his last name from "Froissart" to "Simpson" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in lo...

• Aug-2015
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The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether is a dark comedy short story written by American author Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows an unnamed narrator who visits a mental institution in southern France (more accurately, a Maison de Santé)...

• Aug-2015
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"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" is ashort story by Edgar Allan Poe. The anonymous narrator visits a mental institution in southern France that is pioneering a new treatment. After touring the grounds, he is invited to dine with t...

• Aug-2015
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This volume contains Edgar Allen Poe's 1845 short story, "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade". A day after Scheherazade escaped death, she endeavours to recount another story to the king, this time of a retired Sinbad who finds himself seek...

• Aug-2015
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This antiquarian book contains Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Visionary". A rather convoluted but beautifully-written story set in Venice, "The Visionary" is a disturbing tale that is sure to appeal to lovers of the short story form and fans of P...

• Jul-2015
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The Colloquy of Monos and Una is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best...

• Jul-2015
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Edgar Allan Poe's apocalyptic science fiction short story about two dead people who discuss how the world ended. Eiros died in the apocalypse and explains what happened to Charmion, who had already been dead for ten years prior to the apocalypse....

• Jul-2015
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of America's greatest and most dark and mysterious writers. The circumstances surrounding his untimely death are still unknown, as is what made him tick. Part of the American Romantic Movement, Poe is best known for...

• Jul-2015
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The court jester Hop-Frog, "being also a dwarf and a cripple", is the much-abused "fool" of the unnamed king. This king has an insatiable sense of humour: "he seemed to live only for joking". Both Hop-Frog and his best friend, the dancer Trippetta (a...

• Jul-2015
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The story, told from an unnamed third-person narrator, takes place in Hungary at an unspecified date. The opening passages describe a centuries-long rivalry between two wealthy families: the Metzengersteins and the Berlifitzings. The bitter enmity be...

• Jul-2015
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Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most famous authors in American history.Much of Poes work is incomparably dark and bizarre yet he also wrote the classic poem The Raven and is often credited as the inventor of detective fiction.This edition of Poes The...

• Jul-2015
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A Predicament is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best...

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• Jun-2015
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Best of Edgar Alan Poe. Enjoy some of the best Poe's stories. This books was created by Basor Publishing. Our mission is to revitalize some old and forgotten titles/authors, and bring their popularity back. By purchasing this book you support our eff...

• Mar-2015
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An unnamed narrator, estranged from his family and country, sets sail as a passenger aboard a cargo ship from Batavia (now known as Jakarta, Indonesia). Some days into the voyage, the ship is first becalmed then hit by a Simoon (a combination of a sa...

• Feb-2015
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Poems of Later Life Dedication Preface The Raven The Bells Ulalume To Helen Annabel Lee A Valentine An Enigma To My Mother For Annie To F -- -- To Frances S. Osgood Eldorado Eulalie A Dream Within a Dream To Marie Louise (Shew) To The Same The City...

• Feb-2015
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of America's greatest and most dark and mysterious writers. The circumstances surrounding his untimely death are still unknown, as is what made him tick. Part of the American Romantic Movement, Poe is best known for...

• Feb-2015
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809 -- 1849). The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Gr...

• Feb-2015
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"The Rationale of Verse" is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 -- October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known ...

• Dec-2014
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This anthology of short stories by nineteenth-century and very early twentieth-century include both well-known authors Poe, Twain, O. Henry, Holmes, Harte, etc.and those largely unknown today. This volume offers those readers who take pride in having...

• Dec-2014
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• Nov-2014
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An unabridged classic tale with dazzling modern illustration

The Classics Reimagined series is a library of stunning collector's editions of unabridged classic novels illustrated by contemporary artists from around the world. Each art...

• Oct-2014
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The narrator presents the facts of the extraordinary case of Valdemar which have incited public discussion. He is interested in Mesmerism, a pseudoscience involving bringing a patient into a hypnagogic state by the influence of magnetism, a process w...

• Oct-2014
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Quote the Raven includes seven of Poe's best, and most well-known works.

There are six short stories in this collection: The Black Cat, The Cask Of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (which is widely r...

• Oct-2014
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The classic EDGAR ALLAN POE poem 'The Raven' also includes 20 original illustrations by GUSTAVE DORÉ and a 'Comment on the Poem' by EDMUND C. STEDMAN. 'The Raven' delves into the hidden horrors of the human psyche. Originally published in 1845, the ...

• Oct-2014
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When a young man visits a French mental institution to learn about the hospital's "system of soothing," he is surprised to learn that it has recently abandoned the treatment method. Offered a tour of the grounds, he soon learns the truth about the ne...

• Oct-2014
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The Purloined Letter The Thousand-And-Second Tale Of Scheherazade A Descent Into The Maelström. Von Kempelen And His Discovery Mesmeric Revelation The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar The Black Cat. The Fall Of The House Of Usher Silence -- A Fable ...

• Sep-2014
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Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin is a fictional detective created by Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), widely considered the first detective fiction story. He reappears in "The Mystery of M...

• Sep-2014
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On the surface, "The Domain of Arnheim" is a tale of a fantastically wealthy man called "Ellison" who desires to express "the true character, the august aims, the supreme majesty and dignity of the poetic sentiment". He achiev...

• Sep-2014
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Jack Gunthridge has illustrated Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven". As a children's book, he wanted to have a book parents could read to their children where the rhyming wasn't with words like cat, hat, bat, etc. He also wanted to have a book parents woul...

• Sep-2014
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The Tell-Tale Heart is told by an unnamed narrator who tries to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. (The victim was an old man with a filmy "vulture eye", as the narrator calls it.) The murder is carefully calcu...

• Jun-2014
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The main plot begins when the man is wandering the streets of Venice and comes across a woman who screams because she sees her baby in the water. She is not actually trying to get the baby out of the water though instead a man from across the water j...

• Jun-2014
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Edgar Allan Poe's short story about a young man named Egaeus who lives in a gloomy mansion with his cousin named Berenice. Egaeus develops an obsessive disorder which makes him fixated on certain objects while in a trance-like state. He ends up being...

• Jun-2014
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"Eleonora" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tale...

• Jun-2014
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The narrator explains at length his theory on which he believes causes people to commit acts against their self-interest. This essay-like discussion is presented objectively, though the narrator admits that he is "one of the many uncounted victims of...

• Jun-2014
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The Island of the Fay is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known f...

• Jun-2014
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In this story of artistic obsession, a wounded man finds shelter in an abandoned château in the Appenines and with his valet settles into a small apartment in a remote turret. The oddly shaped room is full of paintings, and on his pillow the man fin...

• Jun-2014
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"LISTEN to me," said the Demon as he placed his hand upon my head. "The region of which I speak is a dreary region in Libya, by the borders of the river Zaire. And there is no quiet there, nor silence. "The waters of the river have a saffron and sick...

• Mar-2014
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The Angel of the Odd is a satirical short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844. The story follows an unnamed narrator who reads a story about a man who died after accidentally sucking a needle down his throat. He rages at the gullibility...

• Mar-2014
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This, the third volume of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe contains The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, the closest to a full-length novel that Poe ever worked on, as well as Ligeia, Morella, A Tale of the Ragged Mountains, The Spectacles, King Pest...

• Mar-2014
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This collection of Poe's work includes Philosophy of Furniture, A Tale of Jerusalem, The Sphinx, Hop-Frog, The Man of the Crowd, Never Bet The Devil Your Head, Thou Art The Man, Why The Little Frenchman Wears His Hand In A Sling, Some Words With A Mu...

• Feb-2014
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The Business Man was written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1840. The narrator of the story is Peter Proffit, a "methodical" businessman by his own admission. He says a nurse swung him around when he was a young boy, and he bumped himself ...

• Feb-2014
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On Sullivan's Island in Charleston Harbor, William Legrand is -- literally and figuratively -- bitten by a gold bug and, thereafter, he becomes fixated on the idea of lost treasure. With his servant, Jupiter, a mysterious cipher, and the gold bug its...

• Oct-2013
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In 1827 Pvt. Edgar Perry arrived at Ft. Moultrie on Sullivan's Island near Charleston and served for 14 months. The haunted, turbulent atmosphere of the South Carolina Lowcountry was a perfect environment to feed Pvt. Perry's poetic despair and dark ...

• Oct-2013
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The midnight hour approaches. You lie in bed and try to sleep, but there is the howling of the wind outside, the creak of a floorboard, the scream of a cat, the ticking clock...Your heart beats, your skin crawls, and despite yourself you reach for th...

• Jul-2013
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Volume one of a two volume collection by a giant of the gothic and macabre

Everyone with an interest in the literature of the gothic, mysterious and macabre will be aware of the fiction, poetry and literary criticism of American author Edgar ...

• Jul-2013
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The second book in a two volume collection by a giant of the gothic and macabre

Everyone with an interest in the literature of the gothic, mysterious and macabre will be aware of the fiction, poetry and literary criticism of American author E...

• Jun-2013
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Afterword by Peter Glassman. This deluxe illustrated edition features a selection of vivid tales, including The Tell-Tale Heart and The Pit and the Pendulum. Moser's watercolor paintings...are both macabre and understated. The best of them make us fu...

• Feb-2013
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Contents: The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Roget The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other thi...

• Jan-2013
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Enter the dark worlds created by Edgar Allen Poe in the collection "The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales." Poe emphasizes morbidity and death through his tales and poems, and this anthology holds all of Poe's best and most famou...

• Jan-2013
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Within their refuge from a terrible plague called the Red Death, Prince Prospero and his court hold an opulent masquerade ball. But one uninvited guest means death for everyone. A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe's stories typically captured the...

• Nov-2012
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of America's greatest and most dark and mysterious writers. The circumstances surrounding his untimely death are still unknown, as is what made him tick. Part of the American Romantic Movement, Poe is best known for...

• Nov-2012
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A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved's blood-staine...

• May-2012
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Edgar Allan Poe's experiments in crime and cryptography fiction can be seen to date from 1840 and "The Man Of The Crowd" ― a crime story without a crime ― and reach their perfect expression in his trilogy of tales involving Parisian detective Aug...

• Jan-2012
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Poe's character, the detective C. Auguste Dupin and his sidekick the unnamed narrator undertake the unsolved murder of Marie Rogêt in Paris. The body of Rogêt, a perfume  shop employee, is found in the River Seine and the media take a keen int...

• Jan-2012
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Thirteen stories of horror, suspense and the supernatural. 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Black Cat' are just three of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous tales in this chilling collection....

• Oct-2011
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This hair-raising collection includes eight of Edgar Allan Poe's most ingenious and gripping tales, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," concerning a most unnerving visit to the home of an old friend; "The Tell-Tale Heart," in which the narrat...

• Sep-2011
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*Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of America's greatest and most dark and mysterious writers. The circumstances surrounding his untimely death are still unknown, as is what made him tick. Part of the American Romantic Movement, Poe is b...

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This collection of sixteen short stories includes some of Edgar Allan Poe's most boundary-pushing and blood-chilling work. Selections range from "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which launched the detective mystery genre, to "The Tell-Tale Heart," a ...

• May-2010
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Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms.The stories of Edgar Allan Poe have long fascinated fans of both horror and suspense. This anthology showcases the tales that...

• Sep-2009
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A new selection for the NEA's Big Read program

A compact selection of Poe's greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program.

This selection of eleven stories and seven poems conta...

• Aug-2009
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Stories of lost love, lost ways . . . and lost minds! Gris Grimly's mysterious, morbid, and macabre illustrations capture four Poe classics with an unmatchable ghoulish charm. This second installment of illustrated Poe tales, a companion to Edgar All...

• Jul-2009
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Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems features all of Edgar Allan Poes classic fiction. It includes "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," and other tales of madness and mania; the revenge classics "The Cask of Amontillado" and "Hop Frog"; the g...

• Mar-2009
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Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar A...

• Mar-2009
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18 of Edgar Allan Poe's dark, strange stories are collected in Poe After Dark. Poe's compelling tales, with eerie atmospheres and weird situations, are as unnerving today as when first written. Stories included are Metzengerstein, Berenice, Morella, ...

• Mar-2009
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• Oct-2008
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Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe's verse in this complete poetry collection.Although best known for his short stories, Edgar Allan Poe was by nature and choice a poet. From his exquisite lyric "To Helen,"...

• Aug-2008
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Pym brings together two classic novels: first, Edgar Allan Poe's polar adventure, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and then Jules Verne's sequel, An Antarctic Mystery. These stories are part nautical adventure, and part "lost race" my...

• Apr-2008
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Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fic...

• Jan-2008
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Pushkin Press presents the first mainstream edition of The Journal of Julius Rodman by Edgar Allen Poe, illustrated with photographs by Edward S. Curtis. The Journal of Julius Rodman is a fictionalised account of the first travels across the Western ...

• Jul-2007
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For over one hundred years, Edgar Allan Poe has awed and thrilled his readers with horrific stories of tragedy, death, and fear. This collection of some of his most famous tales is intended to excite and to remind us that, although the author lived m...

• Oct-2006
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The Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Masque of the Red De...

• Oct-2004
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The classic poems and spine-tingling stories of a Gothic American master collected in one volume.

Of all the American masters, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation, as a master of the macabre. Even today, i...

• Sep-2000
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The story takes place during the Spanish Inquisition. At the beginning of the story an unnamed narrator is brought to trial before various sinister judges. Poe provides no explanation of why he is there or for what he has been arrested. Before him ar...

• Sep-1999
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The finest poetry of Edgar Allan Poe is collected in an anthology that encompasses "Annabel Lee," "Eldorado," "The Raven," "The Conqueror Worm," "Alone," "Sonnet--To Science," and many other works. Reprint....

• Mar-1997
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This is a unique one volume collection of all Poe's best tales and poems. Full of variety, the entries include: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Mystery of Marie Roget", "The Purloined Letter" - three classic detective stories - plus "The Raven"...

• Aug-1996
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The story surrounds the baffling double murder of Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter in the Rue Morgue, a fictional street in Paris. Newspaper accounts of the murder reveal that the mother's throat is so badly cut that her head is barely attached and...

• Sep-1995
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Three spine-chilling horror stories by three masters of the macabre. In "Hop-Frog", a gruesome tale by America's father of Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe, a king's jester, both a dwarf and a cripple, exacts a terrible revenge. Ambrose Bierce's "The B...

• 1993
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TALES MS Found in a Bottle -- Morella -- Ligeia -- The Fall of the House of Usher -- William Wilson -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue -- The Oval Portrait -- The Masque of the Red Death -- The Pit and the Pendulum -- The Tell-Tale Heart -- The Black ...

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Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of th...

• Jun-1978
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One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the scientific developments of an era marked by staggering change. In this collection of sixteen stories, he explores such wide-rangi...

A chilling compilation of some of Edgar Allen  Poe's best-loved stories, edited by Vincent Price and  Chandler Brossard and with an introduction by  Vincent Price, including: The Black  Cat - The Fall of the Ho...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

Some of the most popular horror and mystery stories of all time are collected together here in "The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe." A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these chilling and classic tales. Included in th...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of America's greatest and most dark and mysterious writers. The circumstances surrounding his untimely death are still unknown, as is what made him tick. Part of the American Romantic Movement, Poe is best known for...

�This collection of Poe's work includes some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. They are p...

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime. He was a seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, and exerted a g...

This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history....

One of the most original American writers, Edgar Allan Poe shaped the development of both the detectvie story and the science-fiction story. Some of his poems -- "The Raven," "The Bells," "Annabel Lee" -- remain among the most popular in American lit...

Assembled for the first time is a complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe's science fiction stories. These sixteen tales include Poe's only novel 'Arthur Gordon Pym', which is filled with fantastical thoughts on life at the south polar...

"TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" And so begins "The Tell-Tale Heart", that compressed tale of Gothic composition. The characters and images that Edgar Allan Poe has ...

Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre -- his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things -- was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the ...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

Master of the macabre and suspense, Edgar Allan Poe's short stories have sent shivers down spines of generations of readers. Of these, arguably none are as chilling as The Dupin Mysteries. In 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Purloined Letter' an...

Edgar Allan Poe's classic work of graphology, which includes as much literary criticism as it does handwriting analysis, and also serves as an overview of the major literary figures of his time - some still well-known, many forgotten. This edition in...

Edgar Allan Poe is America's most brilliant author of letters and is widely misunderstood. In this scholarly compilation are background information for Edgar Allan Poe's complete short stories and poems, with annotations, foreign word tra...

This edition of Edgar Allan Poe's A Collection of Stories includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by S. T. Joshi.

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art en...

Perhaps the finest, certainly one of the earliest, writers of classic weird tales, Edgar Allan Poe is sometimes overshadowed by twentieth-century practitioners. Nevertheless, his handling of psychological depth is unmatched in the field.

Thi...

C&C brings you our complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe short stories, comprised of over 60 classic short stories, by one of the most influential writers of the romantic genre. Selections includes, but not limited to the following: "A Tale of Jerus...

In this scholarly compilation are background information for Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, annotations, foreign word translations, illustrations, and photographs of individuals Poe wrote about. These are compiled by Andrew Barger, award winn...

A sweet little cat drives a man to insanity and murder.... The grim death known as the plague roams a masquerade ball dressed in red.... A dwarf seeks his final revenge on his captors.... A sister calls to her beloved twin from beyond the grave.... P...

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, by Edgar Allan Poe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, th...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

The 'first detective' of fiction steps out

'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allan Poe is widely considered to be the first true detective story; also in this volume are the author's two other detective fiction classics featuring the sa...

William Legrand becomes obsessed with searching for treasure after being bitten by a scarab-like bug thought to be made of pure gold. He notifies his closest friend, the narrator, telling him to immediately come visit him at his home on Sullivan's Is...

Recognized today as the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story, Edgar Allan Poe (1809 -- 1849) revealed his genius in tales of death, terror, evil, and perversity. Highly skilled in achieving a calculated psychological effect, Poe c...

Nine�tales of terror from the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," a gripping tale considered the first true detective story; "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Masque of the Red Death," both ...

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The unnamed narrator describes the qualities of Ligeia, a beautiful, passionate and intellectual woman, raven-haired and dark-eyed, that he thinks he remembers meeting "in some large, old decaying city near the Rhine." He is unable to recall anything...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. He was born to a Scots-Irish family in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of actress Eliz...

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Las narraciones extraordinarias de Edgar Allan Poe, el novelista norteamericano nacido en Boston el 19 de enero de 1809 y desaparecido en Baltimore el 7 de octubre de 1849, constituyen la parte más conocida de su obra. El cine y la televisión han e...

When Edgar Allan Poe's only novella was first published in 1838, the reviews were slow in coming and dismissive when they arrived. The book's failure left Poe in such dire financial straits that he even accepted a job at one of the magazines that had...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) est un poète, romancier, nouvelliste, critique littéraire, dramaturge et éditeur américain, ainsi que l’une des principales figures du romantisme américain. Connu surtout pour ses c...

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This collection of Poe's finest stories comprises all the terrifying and bewildering tales that typify his work. All of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories appear alongside the Gothic horror The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Premature Burial...

The first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with 'attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term 'catalepsy', a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance. This leads to his fear of being buried ali...

The unnamed narrator is discussing  some of his most celebrated cases  with with the famous Parisian amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin when they are joined by the Prefect of the Police, a man known as G -- . The Prefect has a case he would...

If you combined clockwork gears, parasols, and air balloons with Edgar Allan Poe, what would you get? Steampunk: Poe! This is the first collection ever of Poe stories illustrated with the influence of steampunk. Running Press Teens has selected some ...

Murder, revenge, deranged fantasies, and dark superstitions: better leave the lights on after reading these 24 chilling tales of horror and suspense, spun by master storyteller Edgar Allan Poe. This collection includes such unforgettable stories as "...

This antiquarian volume contains Edgar Allen Poe's 1844 short story, "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains". An unnamed narrator recounts the story of Augustus Bedloe, a sufferer of neuralgia who was once under the care of an aged physician and dev...

Tales, by Edgar Allan Poe, is a collection of twenty-five stories from the literary father of the mysterious and the macabre. These individual pieces, which include 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. And 'Silence: A Fable', together make up the body o...

With its high-interest adaptations of classic literature and plays, this series inspires reading success and further exploration for all students.These classics are skillfully adapted into concise, softcover books of 80-136 pages. Each retains the...

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This is a collection of tales of mystery and horror from Edgar Allan Poe. One of the stories, entitled 'The Cask of Amontillado', tells how, deeply resentful of his friend, Fortunato's latest insult, Montresor plots an evil revenge....

This is a collection of tales of mystery and horror from Edgar Allan Poe. It includes the story of Bedloe, a wealthy young invalid, who has a strange tale to tell his physician, after he experiences a form of time travel....

**Featuring Edgar Allan Poe's short story which inspired The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix**This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting short stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious...

This book contains 29 classic tales of mystery and imagination by Edgar Allan Poe. It is pictured throughout with the incredible line drawings of Harry Clarke. Tales include: Morella, Ligeia, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Masque of Red Death, The Bl...

Thirteen stories of horror, suspense, and the supernatural that will keep you on the edge of your seat to the very last page. "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Black Cat" are just three of Edgar Allan Poe's most f...

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809 -- 1849) holds a unique place in American literature. Famous as a poet, he also penned short stories that are masterpieces of terror and suspense, infused with the horror and dread he knew from his feverish dreams and persistent...

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Wid that we wint aff to the widdy's, next door, and ye may well say it was an illigant place -- so it was. There was a carpet all over the floor, and in one corner there was a forty-pinny and a jews-harp and the divil knows what ilse, and in another ...

This vintage book contains Edgar Allen Poe's 1843 short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart". An anonymous narrator recounts a murder that he has committed, detailing how he carefully dismembered the body and concealed it underneath the floorboards. His ende...

Scotland's twisted anthology title returns with a third issue that is resolutely old-school in design and modern in approach. Behind its fearsome cover lurks four tales of terror, each with its own unique style. This issue presents an atmospheric ad...

This volume contains Edgar Allen Poe's 1835 short story, "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall". It is the story of Hans Pfaall, a man who claims to have visited the moon in a new type of balloon with the aid of an instrument that allowe...

The story follows a man of noble descent who calls himself William Wilson because, although denouncing his past, he does not accept responsibilities blame for his actions, saying that ''man was never thus [...] tempted before''. After several paragra...

Volume One of a new five-volume edition of Poe's works, based on the Raven edition of 1903. It includes three articles about Edgar Allan Poe and the tales 'The Unparalleled Adventures of one Hans Pfaal', 'The Gold-Bug, Four Beasts in One - the Homo-C...

This second volume, of a new five-volume edition of Poe''s works based on the Raven edition of 1903, contains many of Poe''s most celebrated chilling tales. The complete contents is: The Purloined Letter, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade,...

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This volume contains a wonderful collection of some of Edgar Allan Poe's finest writings, including: • The Unparalledled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal • The Gold-Bug • Four Beasts in One • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • The Mystery of Marie...

This volume contains a wonderful collection of some of Edgar Allan Poe's finest writings, including: • The Purloined Letter • The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade • A Descent Into the Maelstrom • Von Kempelen and his Discovery • Mes...

This volume contains a wonderful collection of some of Edgar Allan Poe's finest writings, including: • Narrative of A. Gordon Pym • Ligeia • Morella • A Tale of the Ragged Mountains • The Spectacles • King Pest • Three Sundays in a Week...

This volume contains a wonderful collection of some of Edgar Allan Poe's finest writings, including: • The Devil in the Belfry • Lionizing • X-ing a Paragraph • Metzengerstein • The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether • How to Writ...

This volume contains a wonderful collection of some of Edgar Allan Poe's finest writings, including: • A Tale of Jerusalem • The Sphinx • Hop-Frog • The Man of the Crowd • Never Bet the Devil Your Head • Thou Art the Man • Why the Littl...

Volume two of the complete works in five volumes from one of the leaders of the American Romantics. Macabre parties in isolated castles ... Gruesome bestial murders ... Talking ravens, hellish black pits, innocents buried alive ... Prepare to be chil...

Volume two of the complete works in five volumes from one of the leaders of the American Romantics. Macabre parties in isolated castles ... Gruesome bestial murders ... Talking ravens, hellish black pits, innocents buried alive ... Prepare t o be chi...

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 1, The Raven Edition is the first of five volumes bringing the finest verse and horror short stories together. In Volume 1, The Raven Edition, are: EDGAR ALLAN POE, AN APPRECIATION. EDGAR ALLAN POE by James Russell...

Excerpt from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 3: Tales

To muse for long unwearied hours, with my at tention riveted to some frivolous device on the margin or in the typography of a book; to become absorbed, for the better part of a summer's day...

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. I: The Rue Morgue and Others -- a sampling of the works of Poe, a brilliant, driven, passionate, difficult, often desperate man -- three-fifths of him genius, which is more than most of the rest of us can claim o...

Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Here is a sampling, the second volume in a reprint of a famous edition of the works of Poe, a ...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

Includes Philosophy of Furniture, A Tale of Jerusalem, the Sphinx, Hop Frog, the Man of the Crowd, Never Bet the Devil Your Head, Thou Art the Man, Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling, and many other tales and poems....

Includes essays about Poe by James Russell Lowell and N.P. Willis, and stories including the Gold-Bug, Four Beasts in One, the Murders in the Rue Morgue, the Mystery of the Marie Roget, the Balloon Hoax, Ms. Found in a Bottle, and the Oval Portrait....

Includes the Purloined Letter, the Thousand-and-Second Tale of Sheherazade, a Descent into the Maelstrom, Von Kempelen and His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, the Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, the Black Cat......

It is virtually impossible to overstate Edgar Allan Poe's importance in the field of American literature. He is credited not only with inventing or significantly advancing the short story, detective fiction, and science fiction, but also with being o...

DEAD BRIDES contains the cycle of five vampiric stories, written between 1835 and 1842, which in many ways forms the sepulchral nucleus of Poe's prose work: Berenice, Morella, Ligeia, The Fall Of The House Of Usher, and The Oval Portrait. In these cl...

The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his help. Although Poe wrote this short story ...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. He was born to a Scots-Irish family in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of actress Eliz...

"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". In both, a ...

An outstanding array of crime fiction by some of today's leading authors is accompanied by short stories from the acclaimed writers who inspired them and features works by Ian Rankin, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Higgins Clark, Evan Hunter, Edgar Allan Po...

The plot involves a man wrongfully accused of murdering his uncle Barnabas Shuttleworthy, whose corpse is missing. An unnamed narrator finds the body, suspects the victim's good friend Charles Goodfellow, and sets up an elaborate plot to expose him. ...

*Includes over a dozen pictures of Poe, his life and work*Includes a Table of ContentsEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of America’s greatest and most dark and mysterious writers. The circumstances surrounding his untimely death are still unk...

This is Edgar Allen Poe's 1849 short story, "Mellonta Tauta". It is presented as a collection of letters written by a woman during a balloon flight in 2848. Within the letters -- directed to a personal friend -- she compares contemporary science, phi...