Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
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Known throughout the world as the master of thc macabre, Edgar Alian Poe is one of America's most brilliant and original writers. His timeless sto- ries from over one hundred years ago have an international popularity that few authors can claim.
This deluxe illustrated edition fea- turcs fourteen of Poe's most vivid and evocative stories, including those which Poe himself named as his Iktst: "The Gold Bug," Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "A Descent into thc Maelstrom." Also included are such immortal tales as "Thc Pit and the Pendulum" and "Thc Cask of Amontillado."
Artist Barry Moser's eighteen pow- erful watercolors capture the unique blend of suspense and horror in Poe's work, making this a collection that will bc treasured by readers of all ages. --front flap
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Fiction, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, Children's fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, short stories, 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, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Revenge, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixationPeople
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Berenice
Cask of Amontillado
Descent into the Maelstrom
Fall of the House of Usher
Gold Bug
Hop-Frog
Imp of the Perverse
Masque of the Red Death
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Premature Burial
Pit and the Pendulum
Purloined Letter
Tell-tale Heart
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