Edgar Allan Poe

This scary short story collection contains the following written by Edgar Allan Poe: THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO, THE TELL-TALE HEART, THE BLACK CAT, THE RAVEN, BERENICE, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, HOP FROG, THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE

"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt". These stories are considered to be important early forerunners of …

El gat negre és un relat d'Edgar Allan Poe, publicat el 19 d'agost de 1843 al Saturday Evening Post de Nova York, amb el títol original de The black cat. Narrat en primera persona, el protagonista explica la seva peculiar relació amb un gat negre, "Plutó", que esdevé una mena d'aliat i alhora enemic en la relació amb …

Edgar Allan Poe’s gift for the macabre–his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things–was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of …

"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death", is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, …