Stories
Subtitle: Twenty-seven Thrilling Tales by the Master of Suspense
Publisher: Platt & Munk
Published: 1970?
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780448411040
Copyright date: 1961
Description: A WRITER'S NAME usually brings to mind a definite place, country or person. Edgar Allan Poe's name evokes no such clear image but rather a mood, a dim unquiet atmosphere of dungeons and dank tombs, of ill-fated beings, doomed decaying houses and unearthly mysteries.

Poe was our first great writer of spine-chilling, macabre, and grisly tales —and he is still the master. He also wrote our first detective and science fiction. Even more than that he was a brilliant critic and a remarkable poet.

This volume includes his best stories —"The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and The Pendulum," "The Purloined Letter," and many others—with a selection of Poe% choicest poems. In addition, Poe himself is the subject of a fascinating introduction, written especially for this book by Laura Benet, author of The Young Edgar Allan Poe.
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Table of contents: title: SELECTED STORIES; title: THE TELLTALE HEART .; title: THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH; title: THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO; title: METZENGERSTEIN; title: THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM; title: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER.; title: THE BLACK CAT; title: A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS; title: THE OBLONG BOX; title: THE MVRDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE; title: THE PURLOINED LEITER; title: MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE; title: THE OVAL PORTRAIT; title: BERENICE; title: DESCENT INTO THE MAEISTROM; title: THOU ART THE MAN; title: MYSTIFICATION; title: THE SPHINX .; title: THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE; title: THE PREMATURE BURIAL; title: WILLIAM WILSON; title: THE ASSIGNATION; title: LIGEIA .; title: MORELLA .; title: SHADOW; title: THE CONVERSATION OF EIROS AND CHARMION; title: SILENCE; title: SELECTED POEMS; title: THE RAVEN; title: THE BELLS; title: ULALUME .; title: ELDORADO •; title: ISRAFEL; title: ANNABEL T,F.R .; title: TO HELEN •; title: TO MY MOTHER