Tales of Mystery Imagination [Hardcover]

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This collection of Poes work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poes writing. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly insoluble mysteries. The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher are key works in the horror canon, while in the The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Mystery of Marie Roget we find the origins modern detective fiction. Collectively, these tales represent the best of Edgar Allan Poes prose work before his premature death in 1849.

With an afterword by Jonty Claypole.

A collection of some of the most imaginative and dramatic stories by Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809. His parents, both touring actors, died before he was three. He was raised by John Allan, a prosperous Virginian merchant. Poe published his first volume of poetry while still a teenager. He worked as an editor for magazines in Philadelphia, Richmond and New York, and achieved respect as a literary critic. In 1836, he married his thirteen year-old cousin. It was only with the publication ofThe Raven and other Poemsin 1845 that he achieved national fame as a writer. Poe died in mysterious circumstances in 1849.

The Gold Bug
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
MS Found in a Bottle
A Descent into the Maelstr?m
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Rog?t
The Purloined Letter
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Pit and the Pendulum
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