About This Book
A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved blood-stained teeth, a man is obsessed with the fear of being buried alive - these are only some of the memorable characters and stories included in this volume, which exemplify Poe's inventiveness and natural talent as a storyteller.Immensely popular both during and after his lifetime, and a powerful influence on generations of writers and film-makers to this day, Edgar Allan Poe is still counted among the greatest short-story writers of all time and seen as one of the initiators of the detective, horror and science-fiction genres.
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Table of contents
- Tales of Horror
- Metzengerstein
- MS Found in a Bottle
- Berenice
- Morella
- Ligeia
- The Devil in the Belfry
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- William Wilson
- The Man of the Crowd
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- A Descent into the Maelström
- Never Bet the Devil Your Head
- Eleonora
- The Masque of the Red Death
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Black Cat
- The Pit and the Pendulum
- A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
- The Premature Burial
- The Oblong Box
- The Purloined Letter
- Some Words with a Mummy
- The Oval Portrait
- The Imp of the Perverse
- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
- The Sphinx
- Note on the Texts
- Notes