Description
Largely ignored throughout the author's lifetime, the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, compiled here in their entirety, remain masterpieces of the short story genre more than a century after their original pub- lication. The precursor of modern psychological writing, the detective story, and science fiction, Poe's stories appear astonishingly modern to the contemporary reader.
Having perfected the short story to a degree never before achieved, Poe sets a mood from the very first sentence and captivates the reader to the very last word. His tales of horror, for which he is best known, are filled with the nightmarish images of death, corruption, and insanity that relentlessly haunted him. Obsessed with the theme of death-premature burial in particular-Poe paints chilling pictures of horror in "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Premature Burial," "The Black Cat," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Pit and the Pendulum."
ISBN:0517336340
