The undisputed master of terror and mystery,Edgar Allan Poe was a unique inventor in fiction.
As readers will discover, Poe possessed an unrivalled capacity to create atmosphere and suspense, and to probe the dark depths of the human psyche. All the stories in this volume push back the boundaries, making the improbable possible, the familiar terrifying and strange.
In"The Fall of the House of Usher"and"The Black Cat"hewrote the first and best tales of terror; with "The Murdersin the Rue Morgue"and his fictional detective M. Dupin he invented the detective story; and tales such as "MS. Found in a Bottle"and"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" pioneered modern science-fiction.
As readers will discover, Poe possessed an unrivalled capacity to create atmosphere and suspense, and to probe the dark depths of the human psyche. All the stories in this volume push back the boundaries, making the improbable possible, the familiar terrifying and strange.
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MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE
THE ASSIGNATION
LIGEIA
HOW TO WRITE A BLACKWOOD ARTICLE
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
WILLIAM WILSON
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
A DESCKNT INTO THE MAILSTROM
THE ISLAND OF THE FAY
THE COLLOQUY OF MONOS AND UNA
THE OVAL PORTRAIT
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATE
THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET
THE PIT AND THK PKNDULUM
THE TELL-TALE HEART
THE GOLD-BUG
THE BLACK CAT
THE PREMATURE BURIAL
THE PUKLOINED LETTER
THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE
THE FACTS IN THK CASE OF M. VALDEMAR
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
THE DOMAIN OF ARNHEIM
WON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY