Judged guilty by the Inquisition, a condemned man is slowly tortured.

A chilling compilation of some of Edgar Allen  Poe's best-loved stories, edited by Vincent Price and  Chandler Brossard and with an introduction by  Vincent Price, including:
The Black  Cat - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masque  of the Red Death - The Facts in the Case of M.  Valdemar - The Premature Burial - Ms. Found in a Bottle  - A Tale of the Ragged Mountains...

Slip behind the bleak walls and vacant windows of Netflix's reimagining of the mansion of doom in this collection of works by Edgar Allan Poe that inspired the limited series "The Fall of the House of Usher". From well-loved classics like "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" to lesser-known gems such as "Tamerlane" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," these tales and poems have stood the test of time, haunting readers for nearly two hundred years....

"One of the most original American writers, Edgar Allan Poe shaped the development of both the detective story and the science-fiction story. Some of his poems--"The Raven," "The Bells," "Annabel Lee"--Remain among the most popular in American literature. Poe's tales of the macabre still thrill readers of all ages. Here are familiar favorites like "The Purloined Letter." "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," together...

Contains sixteen short stories, one novel, and fifteen poems.

This collection of Poe's finest stories comprises all the terrifying and bewildering tales that typify his work. All of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories appear alongside the Gothic horror The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Premature Burial, and what is perhaps his most enduring work The Fall of the House of Usher. Never was there an illustrator whose work was more perfectly suited to the work of Poe - Rackham's ethereal blend of the gruesome...

Poe's genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things is revealed through his short stories.

El autor norteamericano Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) ocupa un lugar relevante en el panteón de los escritores más admirados, imitados y estudiados de la literatura universal. Considerado por muchos como un precursor del cuento corto y de terror como género literario, Edgar Allan Poe escribió también poesía, ensayos y crítica literaria. Fascinado con lo macabro y con un especial talento para ello, Poe también exploró diversos temas y tonos...

Presents an anthology of works from the master of mystery and the macabre, including such pieces as "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Masque of the Red Death," and a selection of poems.