num_pages: 374
description: With his tales of terror, horror, death, ruin, murder, and revenge, Edgar Allan Poe defined and mastered the short story form. Many of the sixteen tales included in this collection — "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Tell-Tale Heart," for example — have become landmarks of American literature. Poe also wrote the world's first detective story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which introduced C. Auguste Dupin, the paragon of that now ubiquitous character: the thinking man's sleuth. Set in the timeless, uncharted places deep within the imagination, Poe's sumptuous prose makes his work as compelling today as when it was first written. --back coverThe Assignation .	Ligeia. .	The Fall of the House of Usher .	The Man of the Crowd .	The Murders in the Rue Morgue	Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale with a Moral .	The Masque of the Red Death.	The Pit and the Pendulum. .	The Tell-Tale Heart. .	The Black Cat. .	The Premature Burial .	The Purloined Letter	The Imp of the Perverse . . . . .	The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether .	The Sphinx	The Cask of Amontillado
language: English
title: Selected tales of Edgar Allan Poe
titlecomplete: Selected tales of Edgar Allan Poe
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Thorndike Press