Selected Tales
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...
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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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Format: hardcover
Publish date: 1969
Publisher: Heron Books
Edition language: English
I can't stand reading horror, it sticks with me long after I've closed the book. But I had to read Poe in high school and his horror is more macabre-horror than Jason-horror and he's become my go-to guy for those rare occasions when I need to read horror. And I have to say I love The Masque of th...
Hands down, no argument from me, Poe is a genius. Whatever problems, challenges or shortcomings he had, his intelligence was not one of them. But while I can appreciate the genius and the intellect that went into this story, I still found it tedious to the extreme. Dupin (who is, in my personal ...
The second of the stories I've chosen to read from my edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Tales, The Gold Bug is so much fun!! It's an adventure and it involves pirates and buried treasure, what's not to like? Well, the blatant racism would be what is not to like. The vernacular of Jupiter too...
I picked up this tome several months ago with no intention of ever reading the whole thing - I'm not a fan of horror and after the required reading of The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado in high school, I knew that while Poe might have been brilliant he was also tapped into a very scary ...
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