The eerie, haunted, and wildly tormented world of Edgar Allan Poe has enchanted me ever since I can.remember. In all my reading, I've never encountered any writer who was so brilliantly ablo to transform his inner visions or hallucinations into universally loved fiction and poetry. Poe's achievements are particularly awesome when you consider what a mixable life he led, both personally and publicly.He was orphaned as a child, adopted by a remarkably cold and pretentious man who, as one reads therecords, clearly hated! him and abandoned him financially when he was in collegs. It is no wonder that he was profoundly neurotic and tried to set comfort, or release,iin extensive gambling and drinking How he managed to write at all is a mystery.

The Black Cat · The Fall of the House of Usher

  The Masque of the Red Death

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

  The Premature Burial · MS Found in a Bottle

A Tale of the Ragged Mountains

  The Sphinx . The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Tell-Tale Heart · The Gold-Bug

  The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether

The Man That Was Used Up · The Balloon-Hoax

  A Descent into the Maelstrbm

The Purloined Letter · The Pit and the Pendulum

  The Cask of Amontillado

THE BLACK CAT

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M.VALDEMAR

THE PREMATURE BURIAL

MS FOUND IN A BOTTLE

A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS"

THE SPHINX

THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE

THE TELL-TALE HEART

THE GOLD-BUG

THE SYSTEM OF DR. TARR AND PROF. FETHER

THE MAN THAT WAS USED UP

THE BALLOON-HOAX

A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM

THE PURLOINED LETTER

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

THE CASK OF AMONTILIADO