Edgar Allan Poe: 1703 books

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...

Recognized today as the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story, Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1949) revealed his genius in tales of death, terror, evil, and perversity. Highly skilled in achieving a calculated psychological effect, Poe created chilling fictional nightmares permeated by mysterious...

Edgar Allan Poes düsterste Erzählungen, illustriert von der großartigen Kat Menschik: Nie sahen die Poe'schen Abgründe so verlockend schön aus! Ein Herz, das nicht aufhören will zu schlagen. Eine rachsüchtige Katze mit nur einem Auge. Ein teuflisches Männchen auf einem Glockenturm, das die...

This collection, Tales of Mystery and Imagination encompasses twenty-nine of Poe’s finest stories – comprising all the terrifying and bewildering narratives that typify his work. It includes: ‘Morella’, ‘Ligeia’, ‘The Murders in Rue Morgue’, ‘The Masque of Red Death’, ‘The Black...

An indispensable collection of the work of one of the 19th century’s most compelling and original poets, this comprehensive edition contains all of Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry and three most important essays. Reissued to coincide with the release of a major Hollywood film of the same title, it exposes...

Edited and with an Introduction by Matthew Pearl Includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” and “The Purloined Letter” Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric...

The Man That Was Used up is a short classic written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1839. The story follows an unnamed narrator who seeks out the famous war hero John A. B. C. Smith. He becomes suspicious that Smith has some deep secret when others refuse to describe him, instead remarking...

The Man That Was Used up is a short classic written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1839. The story follows an unnamed narrator who seeks out the famous war hero John A. B. C. Smith. He becomes suspicious that Smith has some deep secret when others refuse to describe him, instead remarking...

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...

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...

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...

É desafiador adaptar clássicos da literatura, tantas vezes interpretados. A história está contada, tem começo, meio e fim; recontá-la demanda a carpintaria das palavras, encontrando nelas um tom peculiar e diverso, mas ao mesmo tempo mantendo a devida reverência ao texto original – algo como...

Los Hechos en el Caso de M. Valdemar, o en inglés "The Facts of the Case of M. Valdemar", es un relato breve de suspense y terror psicológico escrito por Edgar A. Poe en 1845. Es una de las obras que lo han hecho notorio en el mundo literario de manera póstuma, y uno de sus más significantes...

El Bicho de Oro, en inglés "The Gold-Bug", es una obra de Edgar A. Poe, originalmente escrita en 1842 y publicada por primera vez en 1843 en el periódico Dollar Newspaper. Este relato es uno de los mayores ejemplos de relato de suspense con tintes policiacos, que convierten a Poe en padre...