Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Ware, Hertfordshire
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9781853260131
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Classic fiction; Horror & ghost stories; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Literature: Classics; General; Classics
Description: This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall o/ the House o/ usher, The Premature Burial and TIIC Tell-Tale Heart, all of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories are included. These are the first modern detective stories, and include The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter.

Cover Design by Robert Mathias, Publishing Workshop
Cover Illustration
The Pit and the Pendulum by Arthur Rackham, 1935
Courtesy of Mary Evans Picture Library
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Notes: NTC
Classics Library
Table of contents: title: The gold bug; title: The facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; title: MS, found in a bottle; title: A descent into the Maelström; title: The murders in the Rue Morgue; title: The mystery of Marie Rogét; title: The purloined letter; title: The fall of the House of Usher; title: The pit and the pendulum; title: The premature burial; title: The black cat; title: The masque of the red death; title: Tha cask of Amontillado; title: The oval portrait; title: The oblong box; title: The tell-tale heart; title: Ligeia; title: Loss of breath; title: Shadow-a prable; title: Silence-a fable; title: The man of the crowd; title: Some words with a mummy