Selected Tales
by Edgar Allan Poe
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The undisputed master of terror and mystery, Edgar Allan Poe was a unique inventor in fiction.
In 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Black Cat' he wrote the first and best tales of terror; with 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and his fictional detective M. Dupin he invented the detective story; and tales such as 'MS. Found in a Bottle' and 'Von Kempelen and His Discovery' pioneered modern science-fiction.
As readers will discover, Poe possessed an unrivalled capacity to create atmosphere and suspense, and to probe the dark depths of the human psyche. All the stories in this volume push back the boundaries, making the improbable possible, the familiar terrifying and strange.
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short stories, aristocracy, 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, 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, self-destructive behavior, metaphors, coroners, hanging, 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 fiction (fictional works by one author)People
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Selected Tales
1994, Penguin Books, Penguin Books Ltd
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- Penguin Popular Classics edition (11)
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First Sentence
"OF my country and of my family I have little to say."
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Assignation
Black Cat
Cask of Amontillado
Colloquy of M0nos and Una
Descent into the Maelstrom
Domain of Arnheiu
Duc de L'omelette
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Fall of the House of Usher
Gold-Bug
How to Write a Blackwood Article
Imp of the Perverse
Island of the Fay
Ligeia
Masque of the Red Death
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Mystery of Marie Rogit
Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
Premature Burial
Purloined Letter
Tell-tale Heart
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
William Wilson
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