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[...]

Presented in hardcover, this title has been carefully edited and reset in a modern design for greater readability. It includes an introduction, informative notes and a chronology of the writer's life and times to enable the reader to gain a deeper understanding of these enduring works.[...]

An indispensable anthology of brilliant hard-to-find writings by Poe on poetry, the imagination, humor, and the sublime which adds a new dimension to his stature as a speculative thinker and philosopher. Essays (in translation) by Charles Baudelaire Stephane Mallarme, Paul Valery, & Andre Breton she[...]

The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night ...is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror ...is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never[...]