The Fall of the House of Usher
and other stories
by Edgar Allan Poe
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This volume contains a collection of 39 of some of the best short stories ever written by Edgar Allan Poe. A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these classic short stories. Contained within this volume are the following: The Gold-Bug, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Balloon-Hoax, The Purloined Letter, A Descent into the Maelström, The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ms. Found in a bottle,The cask of Amontillado, The assignation,The man that was used up, and more.
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The Fall of the House of Usher: and other stories
1986, Marshall Cavendish
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Assignation
Balloon Hoax
Black Cat
Cask of Amontillado
Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Descent into the Maelstrom
Devil in the Belfry
Domain of Arnheim
Eleonora
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Fall of the House of Usher
Gold-Bug
Hop-Frog
Imp of the Perverse
Island of the Fay
Landor's Cottage
Ligeia
Man of the Crowd
Masque of the Red Death
Metzenerstein
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Murders of the Rue Morgue
Oblong Box
Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
Premature Burial
Purloined Letter
Shadow, a Parable
Silence — A Fable
Some Words with a Mummy
Spectacles
Sphinx
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
Tell-tale Heart
Thou Art the Man
Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scherherazade
William Wilson
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