Fourteen tales of mystery, terror, imagination, and suspense from Edgar Allan Poe.
Classic tales of mystery, terror, and suspense, including The Fall of the House of Usher-the inspiration for the Netflix series from Mike Flanagan, the director of The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass!
This volume gathers together fourteen of Edgar Allan Poe's richest and most influential tales, including- ""The Pit and the Pendulum,"" his reimagining of Inquisition tortures; ""The Tell-Tale Heart,"" an exploration of a murderer's madness, which Stephen King called ""the best tale of inside evil ever written""; ""The Fall of the House of Usher,"" Poe's tour de force about a family doomed by a grim bloodline curse; and his pioneering detective stories, ""The Purloined Letter"" and ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue,"" featuring a rational investigator with a poetic soul. Also included is Poe's only full-length novel, Narrative of A. Gordon Pym.
With an Introduction by Stephen Marlowe
and an Afterword by Regina Marler
By:
Edgar Allan Poe Afterword by:
Regina Marler Introduction by:
Stephen Marlowe Imprint: Signet Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 172mm,
Width: 105mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 208g ISBN:9780451530318 ISBN 10: 0451530314 Pages: 391 Publication Date:22 May 2007 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Reviews for The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
Poe was so good at writing stories that exploited the unspokenhorrors of his day. Chuck Palahniuk