Edgar Allan Poe''s chilling poems and macabre tales have made him one of the most widely read and beloved American authors ever. Featured here are more than thirty classic tales, major poems, and the seminal novella, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Among the works included: "The Pit and the Pen[...]

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With dozens of short stories and poems, including Edgar Allan Poe's most famous stories, this essential collection includes an insightful introduction, photographs of Poe, and definitive texts. It also has a full cloth sewn binding, uniform with others in this series.[...]

Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the Universi[...]

Few authors' names conjure up such an air of ghoulish terror as that of Edgar Allan Poe. Although best known for his classic gothic horror tales such as "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Fall of the House of Usher" or "The Premature Burial", he also wrote mystery thrillers like "The Murders in the Ru[...]

Before you start, here are a few tips. To be a good detective you need the same skills as a good card-player. You must consider and examine every detail, not just the obvious ones. You have to observe every change in a person's face, everything they say, everything they do and you must always expect[...]

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. As well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tal[...]

Gathers all of Poe's poetry, tales, short stories, and general essays in chronological order

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Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre-his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things-was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood[...]