The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Subtitle: And Other Stories
Publisher: Konemann
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Koln
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9783895080906
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Classic fiction; Horror & ghost stories; Short stories; Mystery & Detective - General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Mystery/Suspense; Classics; Horror - General; Sale Books
First sentence: The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.
Description: The portrait painted by an artist robs his sitter of her lite. A jester dwarf takes terrible revenge on the king and his court. The Red Death stalks the charnbers of Prince Prospero. The razor-edged prisoner of the Inquisition. And Montresor takes Fortunato to a dank Rornan cellarage, to taste an Arnontillado...

Ten of Edgar Allan Poe's great tales of horror, jeopardy and death, and the four classic tales with which he created a new genre, the detective story: 'The Gold-Bug', 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Nlystery of Marie Roget' and 'The Purloined Letter'.
--front flap
Table of contents: title: The oval portrait --; title: Ligeia --; title: Eleonora --; title: Morella --; title: Berenice --; title: The fall of the house of Usher --; title: The masque of the red death --; title: Hop-Frog --; title: The pit and the pendulum --; title: The cask of Amontillado --; title: The gold-bug --; title: The murders in the Rue Morgue --; title: The mystery of Marie Rog?et --; title: The purloined letter.