Tales of Terror
By: Edgar Allan Poe ; selected and illustrated by Neil Waldman.
Contributors: Waldman, Neil, ill.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1985
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780138842147
Copyright date: 1985
Subjects: Horror tales; Children's stories, American; Horror stories; Short stories
Description: Ten of the master's best and most terrifying tales are collected here in a superb volume that will delight lovers of mystery and the macabre. These marvelously crafted masterpieces are as spine-chilling today as when they first appeared, and the exquisite illustrations make this especially personal collection by Neil Waldman a volume to be treasured. Weird and shadowy drawings highlight the mystery and terror, bringing such tales as "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Black Cat", and "The Cask of Amontillado" to life in ways that will haunt the imagination.
--front flap
Table of contents: title: The Tell-Tale Heart; title: The Masque of the Red Death; title: Ms. Found in a Bottle; title: The Pit and the Pendulum; title: The Black Cat; title: A Descent into the Maelstrom; title: Ligeia; title: The Fall of the House of Usher; title: Hop-Frog; title: The Cask of Amontillado