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Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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"Edgar and Allan, the great-great-great-great-grandnephews of the famed writer Edgar Allan Poe, discover that they are entrapped in a nefarious plot that has been going on since their birth"--
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A collection of some of the most influential stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, the master of tales of the mysterious and macabre. From the eerie incantations of “The Raven” to the persistent fright of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” his stories and poems are unforgettable explorations of the darker side of life that still offer lessons and insight into human behavior today, making them an integral component of just about any library.
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English
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Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe's own family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end as a drunkard. Everyone, in fact, seems to believe this except a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who puts his own career and reputation at risk in a passionate crusade to salvage Poe's.
6) The raven
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Baltimore 1849. While investigating a horrific double murder, police detective Emmett Fields makes a startling discovery: the killer's methods mirror the twisted writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Suspecting Poe at first, Fields ultimately enlists his help to stop future attacks. But in this deadly game of cat and mouse, the stakes are raised with each gruesome slaying as the pair races to catch a madman before he brings every one of Poe's shocking stories...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist.
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English
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For the past fifty years on the birth date of Edgar Allan Poe, a person wearing a cloak has placed three roses and a half bottle of cognac on the writer's gravesite. PI Tess Monaghan has never witnessed the event. But when John P. Kennedy, an eccentric antiques dealer, asks her to uncover the identity of the caped visitor, who he believes has duped him with the sale of an inauthentic antique, Tess decides to hold vigil on the night the cloaked stranger...
9) The raven
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents Poe's haunting poem, which explores the terrifying truths that lurk deep within the human psyche.
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English
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"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...
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Everyman's library volume 336. Fiction
Collins Classics
Collectors' library volume 14
Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural
Collins Classics
Collectors' library volume 14
Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural
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English
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Presents an anthology of tales of horror and the supernatural.
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English
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"A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes. It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tales of terror. What was the cause of his untimely death, and what happened...
14) The death dealer
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English
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As a killer obsessed by Poe's macabre tales selects his victims from members of a literary society devoted to the master writer, author Genevieve O'Brien, fearing that her mother will be next, enlists the aid of P.I. Joe Connolly to stop the murders.
15) Mrs. Poe
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English
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Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.
16) Entombed
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
Assistant District Attorney and prosecutor, Alexandra Cooper investigates a case involving a twenty-year-old skeleton entombed behind a brick wall and draws a connection between that and a string of rapes committed in Manhattan's Upper East Side.
17) On night's shore
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English
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Historical thriller involving the death of a desperate young woman and Edgar Allan Poe.
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Everyman's library volume 99
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English
Description
Poe's genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things is revealed through his short stories.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 530L
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English
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In this graphic novel adaptation, Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story is transformed into a heart-pounding, visual experience portraying one man's journey into the dizzying depths of madness.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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Filled with broken hearts and black ravens, Edgar Allan Poe's ghastly tales have delighted readers for centuries. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was orphaned at age two. He was soon adopted by a Virginia family who worked as tombstone merchants. In 1827 he enlisted in the Army and subsequently failed out of West Point. His first published story, The Raven, was a huge success, but his joy was overshadowed by the death of his wife. Poe devoted his life...
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