Tales of Horror and Suspense
By: Edgar Allan Poe.
Series: Dover Evergreen Classics
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Mineola, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780486428444
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Horror tales, American.; Detective and mystery stories, American.
Description: This hair-raising collection includes eight of Edgar Allan Poe's most ingenious and gripping tales, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," concerning a most unnerving visit to the home of an old friend; "The Tell-Tale Heart," in which the narrator just can't stand the way an old man looks at him; "William Wilson," a haunting allegory about a split personality; "The Murder in the Rue Morgue," the grand- father of all modern detective fiction, featuring a sleuth even cleverer than Sherlock Holmes; and four other riveting stories: "The Pit and the Pendulum," 'The Cask of Amontillado," "The Gold-Bug," and "The Purloined Letter."

Lovers of strange and mind-bending fiction will delight in these classic, spine-tingling tales by one of the great writers of horror fiction,

Dover (2003) republication of eight unabridged stories from standard editions. viii+ 177pp. 53/16 x 81/4. Paperbound.
Table of contents: title: The tell-tale heart; title: The pit and the pendulum; title: The fall of the House of Usher; title: The cask of Amontillado; title: William Wilson; title: The gold-bug; title: The murders in the Rue Morque; title: The purloined letter.