num_pages: 320
description: The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe'... an agility astounding a strength superhuman a ferocity brutal a butchery without motive a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...'Horror madness violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales including - among others - the bloody brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' the creeping insanity of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' the Gothic nightmare of 'The Masque of the Red Death' and the terrible doom of 'The Fall of the House of Usher'.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
language: English
title: The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales
publisher: Penguin Classic