An edition of The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories] (1960)

The Fall of the House of Usher

and Other Tales

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An edition of The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories] (1960)

The Fall of the House of Usher

and Other Tales

Signet Classic edition (23)

by

  • ★★★★ 4.2 (6 ratings) ·
  • 16 Want to read
  • 7 Have read

This Signet Classic collection of Edgar Allan Poe's rnacabre stories of men caught in the clutch of mysterious or super- natural forces. rnoving irrevocably toward imminent destruction, includes:
fourteen tales of terror, imagination, and suspense:
THE BALLOON HOAX
MS FOUND IN A BOTTLE
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
THE PURLOINED LETTER
THE BLACK CAT
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
THE ASSIGNATION
THE TELL-TALE HEART
DIDDLING
THE MAN THAT WAS USED UP

AND POE'S ONLY FULL-LENGTH NOVEL,
narrative of a. gordon pym

herewith making its first appearance in a paperback selection of the celebrated author' work.
--back cover

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Publisher
New American Library
Language
English
Pages
384

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Subjects

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, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, American Fantasy fiction, Literature: Classics, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, horror, Fiction, short stories (single author)

People

Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

Places

Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo

Times

Carnival

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The Fall of the House of Usher: and Other Tales
1998-04, Signet
Mass Market Paperback in English - First Signet Classic Printing (Marlowe Introduction) (5)
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The Fall of the House of Usher: and Other Tales
1980, New American Library, Signet Classics
Mass Market Paperback in English - Signet Classic edition (25)
Cover of: The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher: and Other Tales
1980, New American Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - Signet Classic edition (21)
Cover of: The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher: and Other Tales
1960, New American Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - Signet Classic edition (23)

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Table of Contents

The Balloon-Hoax
7
Ms. Found in a Bottle
21
A Descent into the Maelström
32
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
49
The Purloined Letter
84
The Black Cat
103 _
The Fall of the House of Usher
113
The Pit and the Pendulum
132
The Masque of the Red Death
147
The Cask of Amontillado
154
The Assignation
161
The Tell-Tale Heart
173
Diddling
179
The Man That Was Used Up
100
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
200
Afterword by R. P. Blackmur
375
Selected Bibliography
384

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
A Signet classic, CD29
Copyright Date
1960

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.P752 Fal6, PS2614 Fal6

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
383 p.
Number of pages
384

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL5811750M
LCCN
60050786
Library Thing
68575
Goodreads
58806470

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL273484W

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Scriblio MARC record
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Work Description

Assignation
Balloon-Hoax
Black Cat
Cask of Amontillado
Descent into the Maelstrom
Diddling
Fall of the House of Usher
Man That Was Used Up
Masque of the Red Death
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Pit and the Pendulum
Purloined Letter
Tell-tale Heart

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