Edgar Allan Poe: 1703 books

"O Demônio da Perversidade" é um conto que começa como um ensaio escrito pelo autor americano do século 19, Edgar Allan Poe. Ele discute impulsos autodestrutivos do narrador, incorporados como o Demônio da Perversidade. O narrador descreve esse espírito como o agente que tenta a pessoa...

The Masque of the Red Death (A Máscara da Morte Rubra , em português) é um conto escrito por Edgar Allan Poe. Em 1964, o conto ganhou uma adaptação para o cinema, com o ator Vincent Price no papel do protagonista príncipe Próspero e dirigido por Roger Corman que filmara uma série...

"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". In both, a murderer carefully conceals...

Le Puits et le Pendule (The Pit and the Pendulum) est une nouvelle écrite par Edgar Allan Poe qui fut publiée pour la première fois fin 1842 dans la revue littéraire annuelle The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present. L'histoire raconte les supplices endurés par un prisonnier lors de l'Inquisition...

El escarabajo de oro (título original en inglés: The Gold Bug) es un cuento del escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe publicado por primera vez en junio de 1843, en el Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, después de que Poe ganase un concurso de relatos cortos convocado por el propio periódico,...

Il barile di Amontillado (in inglese: The Cask of Amontillado o The Casque of Amontillado) è un racconto breve scritto da Edgar Allan Poe e pubblicato per la prima volta sul numero di novembre 1846 di Godey's Lady's Book. La storia è probabilmente ambientata in una non identificata città...

"Berenice" is a short horror story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1835. The story follows a man named Egaeus who is preparing to marry his cousin Berenice. He has a tendency to fall into periods of intense focus during which he seems to separate himself from...

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces...

"Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourangoutangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical...

"Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourangoutangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical...

"Une descente dans le maelstrom" ("A Descent into the Maelström") est une nouvelle d'Edgar Allan Poe publiée en 1841. Poe classe ce texte parmi ses nouvelles de "ratiocination" : il est possible d'y voir une forme précoce de science-fiction.

"Mesmeric Revelation" is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). First published in 1844, the tale is centered on mesmerist experiments. This edition also contains a long note on Poe's life and work written by French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) in 1852. The essay was translated in English by Henry Curwen (1845-1892) in 1873.

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces...

Aventure sans pareille d'un certain Hans Pfaall (The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall dans l'édition originale) est une nouvelle d'Edgar Allan Poe, parue en juin 1835, dans l'édition du magazine mensuelSouthern Literary Messenger, conçue comme un canular journalistique...