Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American of Ulster stock and a compelling writer who died, in tragic circumstances, at the early age of forty.
His neurotic temperament and addiction to alcohol go a long way to explaining the grotesque and tortured nature of his Tales of Mystery and Imagination many of which are pervaded by despair. This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that best characterize his work.
In addition to the Gothic horror of such famous stories as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of usher, The Premature Burial and The Tell- Tale Heart, all of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories are included. These are the first modern detective stories in English and include The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rogét, The Gold Bug and The Purloined Letter.
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self-destructive behavior, metaphors, coroners, hanging, short stories, 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, 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 storiesPeople
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
1995, Wordsworth Classics
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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
Imp of the Perverse
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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