Enter the dark and haunting world of Edgar Allan Poe in this collection of four unforgettable works of Gothic fiction, psychological terror, and poetic mystery.The audiobook opens with Poe’s celebrated masterpiece, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” in which an ancient family, a decaying mansion, and a mysterious illness converge in one of Poe’s most enduring tales. It is followed by “Ligeia,” a story of obsessive love, death, and the mysterious possibility of return. “The Premature...

Edgar Allan Poe: Masterpieces – Huge Collection of Gothic Classics in One Kindle EditionIf you enjoy classic horror, mystery and Gothic literature, this is a fantastic collection to have on your Kindle.Edgar Allan Poe: Masterpieces brings together an enormous selection of works by one of the most influential writers of all time, including his novels, famous short stories, poetry, letters, essays, articles and literary critici...

A guided descent through the Gothic tradition, beginning with haunted places and psychological unease, moving through vampires and uncanny doubles, and culminating in the genre's most enduring monsters. Included works: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) — The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) — The Haunted House (Charles Dickens) — The Canterville Ghost, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) — The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) — Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (M...

Cette collection réunit l'œuvre intégrale d'Edgar Allan Poe, maître du récit gothique et pionnier de la littérature policière. Elle comprend ses nouvelles les plus célèbres, telles que Le Chat noir, La Chute de la maison Usher et Le Cœur révélateur, ainsi que ses poèmes emblématiques comme Le Corbeau et Annabel Lee. Une plongée envoûtante dans le macabre, le mystère et la mélancolie, réunie en un seul volume élégant pour Chronicle Vault.

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to Shakespeare. Spanning centuries and continents, from the Spanish Golden Age to Gothic romance, Vic...

From Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering tales of ratiocination to Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless detective fiction, this sweeping collection gathers thirty stories of crime, deduction, and hidden truth. Gaston Leroux's locked-room ingenuity, Maurice Leblanc's gentleman-thief capers, G. K. Chesterton's paradox-laden puzzles, and Wilkie Collins's sensation-novel suspense sit alongside contributions from Mark Twain, Jules Verne, and Thomas Hardy, tracing the mystery and investigation short story acr...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

Enter the darkest corners of the human imagination with the master of gothic suspense. The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe brings together the haunting fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most influential writers of Gothic literature, mystery, horror, and psychological fiction. Poe's stories plunge readers into worlds of murder, mystery, obsession, madness, revenge, supernatural terror, and the macabre. His distinctive storytelling combines atmospheric settings with psychological tens...

Edgar Allan Poe emerges here as one of America's most fascinating and controversial writers: a brilliant, intensely personal artist whose life and work are inseparable. From his orphaned childhood and adoption by John Allan to his difficult years in England, Richmond, the University of Virginia, West Point, and poverty-stricken literary struggle, the portrait follows a proud, solitary temperament shaped by loss, ambition, and dependence on the loving household of Virginia and Mrs. Clemm. I...

Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka opens as a daring blend of poem, philosophy, and cosmic speculation, addressed to readers who feel rather than merely think. In this visionary preface, Poe frames the work as an inquiry into truth, beauty, and the material and spiritual universe, offering it with profound respect to Alexander von Humboldt and inviting judgment on artistic as well as intellectual grounds. The essay then pushes into bold metaphysical territory, probing the limits of reason, the contr...

En ĉi tiu malluma majstraĵo de Edgar Allan Poe, kaptito de la Hispana Inkvizicio vekiĝas al mondo de absoluta timo, kie memoro, korpa doloro kaj la malrapida alproksimiĝo de morto kunfandiĝas en unu el la plej memorindaj vizioj de psikologia hororo. La rakonto transformas unu solan ĉambron en universon de angoro, montrante kiel atendo, observado kaj necerteco povas esti pli teruraj ol rekta ago. Verkita en la romantika kaj gotika etoso de la 19-a jarcento, ĝi esploras la limojn inter racio...

Step beyond the candlelight into a world of ruined castles, haunted houses, forbidden experiments and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Gothic Shadows unites fifteen complete classics by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and other masters of supernatural literature. From Frankenstein and Dracula to Carmilla, The Turn of the Screw, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray, this collection traces the evolution of Gothic fiction across more ...