Selected Tales
Edition: Penguin Popular Classics edition (11)
Series: Penguin Popular Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books; Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780140621167
First sentence: OF my country and of my family I have little to say.
Description: The undisputed master of terror and mystery, Edgar Allan Poe was a unique inventor in fiction.

In 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Black Cat' he wrote the first and best tales of terror; with 'The Murders in 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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Table of contents: title: THE DUC DE L'OMELETTE; title: MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE; title: THE ASSIGNATION; title: LIGEIA; title: How TO WRITE A BLACKWOOD ARTICLE; title: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER; title: WILLIAM WILSON; title: THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE; title: A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖU; title: THE ISLAND OF THE FAY; title: THE COLLOQUY OF M0Nos AND UNA; title: THE OVAL PORTRAIT; title: THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH; title: THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGiT; title: THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM; title: THE TELL-TALE HEART; title: THE GOLD-BUG; title: THE BLACK CAT; title: THE PREMATURE BURIAL; title: THE PURLOINED LETTER; title: THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE; title: THE Facrs IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR; title: THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO; title: THE DOMAIN OF ARNHEIU; title: VON KEUPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY