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Cover of The Black Cat
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

"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...
Cover of The Cask of Amontillado
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado") is a short story, written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story is set in a nameless Italian city in an unspecified year (possibly sometime during...
Cover of A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

Set in late November 1827, the tale is begun by an unidentified narrator whose story is the loose outer frame for the central tale of Augustus Bedloe, a wealthy young invalid whom the narrator has known "casually" for eighteen years yet who still remains an enigma. Because of ongoing problems...
Cover of The Premature Burial
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

In "The Premature Burial", the first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with things such as "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy", a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance. This leads to his fear of being...
Cover of The Man of the Crowd
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

"The Man of the Crowd" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe about a nameless narrator following a man through a crowded London. It was first published in 1840. The story is introduced with the epigraph "Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul" — a quote taken...
Cover of The Pit and the Pendulum
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018

The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story is deemed guilty for an unnamed crime and put into...
Cover of The Evil Clergyman
by H.P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018

"The Evil Clergyman" is an excerpt from a letter written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1933. After his death, it was published in the April 1939 issue of Weird Tales as a short story. The story was later adapted into the unreleased 1987 anthology film Pulse Pounders....
Cover of Morella
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

"Morella" is a short story in the Gothic horror genre by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. An unnamed narrator marries Morella, a woman with great scholarly knowledge who delves into studies of the German philosophers Fichte and Schelling, dealing with the question...
Cover of The Disinterment
by H.P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018

Fist published in 1935, "The Disinterment" is a short horror story by H.P. Lovecraft.
Cover of The Moon Bog
by H.P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018

"The Moon-Bog" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in or before March 1921. The story was first published in the June 1926 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales. In the story, the unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys...
Cover of The Colloquy of Monos and Una
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, an apocalyptic science fiction story first published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in 1839. Two people, who have been renamed Eiros and Charmion after death, discuss the manner in which the world ended. Eiros, who...
Cover of The Domain of Arnheim
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer
Cover of The Masque of the Red Death
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018

"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,...
Cover of Poetry of the Gods
by H.P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018

Poetry and the Gods is a short story by horror writer and poet H.P. Lovecraft in collaboration with writer Anna Helen Crofts. The story is very different from the vast majority of Lovecraft's other work and collaborations. It does, however, bear similar themes regarding dreams as a doorway to magic...
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