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Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's...

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.

Readers will recognize their favorite horror stories in the collection "The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings." Edgar Allen Poe was a master of suspense, horror, and mystery, and his stories, while truly terrifying, are also delightfully entertaining. In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator has just...

Enter the dark worlds created by Edgar Allen Poe in the collection "The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales." Poe emphasizes morbidity and death through his tales and poems, and this anthology holds all of Poe's best and most famous works from throughout his career. In "The Fall of the House of...

Are you a fan of thriller, mystery and suspense? Add this book to your collection. This book is a compilation of the world’s best classical thriller stories, comprising some of the best thriller and mystery works of noted authors such as Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and HG Wells. 

After reading an 1836 newspaper account of a shipwreck and its two survivors, Edgar Allan Poe penned his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, the story of a stowaway on a Nantucket whaleship who finds himself enmeshed in the dark side of life at sea: mutiny, cannibalism, savagery—even...

Poe was a prolific writer of science fiction and supernatural tales, responding in his writing to numerous emerging technologies. He often included elements of popular pseudo-sciences, dealing with themes such as time travel and resurrection of the dead. Table of Contents: Ms. Found in a Bottle The...

This eBook edition of "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Arthur Gordon Pym and Augustus Barnard from the island of Nantucket are best friends, determined to become sailors, and ready for an...

Tales, by Edgar Allan Poe, is a collection of 25 stories from the literary father of the mysterious and the macabre. These individual pieces, which include The Fall of the House of Usher, and Silence: A Fable, together make up the body of both Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque and Tales of the...

Fantastic book of Adventure and Action! A must read for the Edgar Rice Burroughs fan!

BEST STORiES BEST AUTHORS - 3 ------------------------------------------------------- Mark Twain   -   A Ghost Story Guy de Maupassant   -   "The Terror" Anton Chekhov   -   Dreams Kate Chopin   -   Her Letters T.S. Arthur   -   Other People's Eyes Edgar Allan...

Every character in Spoon River Anthology is dead.  And the dead speak.  In Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology the speakers lie together in a hillside graveyard in a small, rural community in central Illinois.  As they moulder in their earthen tombs, they spill forth their secrets to the...

According to Wikipedia: "Edgar Lee Masters (Garnett, Kansas, August 23, 1868 - Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1950) was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent...

Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town of Lewistown, Illinois. The aim of the poems...