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 (21)

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This Signet Classic edition contains Poe's macabre stories of men and women caught up by mysterious or supernatural forces.

FOORTEEN TALES OF TERROR, IMAGINATION, AND SUSPENSE:

THE BALLOON-HOAX • ms FOUND IN A BOTTLE • A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM • THE MURDERS IN THE ROE 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 P+IONTII-LADO • 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's work.

With an Afterword by R. P Blackmur

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New American Library
Language
English
Pages
384

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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

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Carnival

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1980, New American Library
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The Fall of the House of Usher: and Other Tales
1980, New American Library, Signet Classics
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1960, New American Library
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Table of Contents

Balloon-hoax --
Ms. found in a bottle --
Descent into the Maelstrom --
Murders in the Rue Morgue --
Purloined letter --
Black cat --
Fall of the house of Usher --
Pit and the pendulum --
Masque of the red death --
Cask of Amontillado --
Assignation --
Tell-tale heart --
Diddling --
Man that was used up.

Edition Notes

A Signet classic.
Rev. and updated bibliography.
Includes bibliographical references (page 384).

Published in
New York
Series
Signet Classics
Copyright Date
1980

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813
Library of Congress
PS2602 .B62 1980

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
383, [1] pages
Number of pages
384

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL32098169M
ISBN 10
0451516591
ISBN 13
9780451516596
OCLC/WorldCat
9352657
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
58905436

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL273484W

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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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