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Oct 03, 2006 | ISBN 9780451530318 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Oct 03, 2006 | ISBN 9781101077993 Buy
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Oct 03, 2006 | ISBN 9780451530318
Oct 03, 2006 | ISBN 9781101077993
Classic tales of mystery, terror, imagination, and suspense from the celebrated master of the macabre.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
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at… More about Edgar Allan Poe
“Poe was so good at writing stories that exploited the unspoken horrors of his day.”—Chuck Palahniuk
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