Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favour of blurred boundaries between self and other, will and morality, ident...

This book, newly updated, contains the complete Edgar Allan Poe’s tales and poems —over 135 works— in the chronological order of their original publication.The Tales:A Tale of JerusalemBon-BonLoss of BreathMetzengersteinThe Duc de l’OmeletteMS. Found in a BottleThe AssignationBereniceKing PestLio...

First published in 1886, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gripping Gothic novella that explores the dual nature of humanity. The story follows the respected scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll, who develops a mysterious potion that transforms him into the sinister and violent Mr. Edward Hyde. As Jekyll struggles to control his darker alter ego, the boundary between good and evil begins to blur, leading to shocking consequences. Through suspense and psychological depth, Robert Louis Steven...

The Ultimate Poe: Short Stories pulls together all of the more than 50 short stories penned by author Edgar Allan Poe during his literary career. A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe’s stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. Better-known stories include “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.”HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital forma...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the indisputable greats of American literature. Part of the American Romantic movement, his horror stories are known the world over and have become classics. Meanwhile, stories like The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Mystery of Marie Roget helped found the detective novel genre, that would later come into its own with the likes of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, half a century later.This fabulous collection comprises 60 short storie...

A thrilling, macabre collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s greatest short stories and poems, as well as his only full-length novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon PymEdgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe’s prose and poetry. Here are sixteen of his finest tales, including:• “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a story of a murderer whose guilty conscience manifests in the fo...

This antiquarian volume contains a collection of some of Edgar Allen Poe’s most famous tales, including “The Gold-Bug”, “Ms. Found in a Bottle”, “A Descent into the Maelström”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “William Wilson”, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Mystery of Marie Roget”, “The Pitt and the Pendulum”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains”, and more. This volume constitutes a must-have for fans of the macabre, and would make for a fantastic addition to an...

'it was butcher work...the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam' Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic shocker introduced Count Dracula to the world, an ancient creature bent on bringing his contagion to London, the very heart of the British Empire. Only a handful of men and women stand between Dracula and his long-cherished goal, but they are vulnerable and weak against the cunning and supernatural powers of the Count and h...

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.ContentsVol. I "Morella" "Lionizing" "William Wilson" "The Man That Was Used Up A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign" "The Fall of the House of Usher" "The Duc de L'Omelette" "MS. Found in a Bottle" "Bon-Bon" "Shadow A Parable" "The Devil in the Belfry" "Ligeia" "King Pest A Tale Containing an Allegory" "The Signora Zenobia" "The Scythe of Time"...

A chilling compilation of some of Edgar Allen Poe's best-loved stories, edited by Vincent Price and Chandler Brossard and with an introduction by Vincent Price, including:The Black Cat - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masque of the Red Death - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - The Premature Burial - Ms. Found in a Bottle - A Tale of the Ragged Mountains - The Sphinx - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - The Tell-Tale Heart - The Gold-Bug - The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof...