Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
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This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall o/ the House o/ usher, The Premature Burial and TIIC Tell-Tale Heart, all of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories are included. These are the first modern detective stories, and include The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter.
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The Pit and the Pendulum by Arthur Rackham, 1935
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American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, short stories, silence, premature burial, catalepsy, Taphophobia, crypts, phobias, unconsciousness, berths, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Mesmerism, suspense, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, American detective and mystery stories, American children's stories, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, mystery & detective, generalPeople
Demon, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Ernest Valdemar, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de CrébillonTimes
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
2008, Wordsworth Editions
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
2000, Wordsworth Classics, NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
1993, Wordsworth Classics
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
1985, Chancellor Press
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Contains:
Black Cat
Cask of Amontillado
Descent into the Maelstrom
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Fall of the House of Usher
Gold-Bug
Ligeia
Loss of Breath
Man of the Crowd
Masque of the Red Death
MS. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Mystery of Marie Roget
Oblong Box
Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
Premature Burial
Purloined Letter
Shadow
Silence — A Fable
Some Words with a Mummy
Tell-tale Heart
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