Publisher: New American Library

Copyright Date: 2006

Edition Date: 2006 Release Date: 10/03/06

Pages: xvi, 414 pages

ISBN: 0-451-53031-4

ISBN 13: 978-0-451-53031-8

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2007271064

Dimensions: 18 cm.

Subject Heading:
Supernatural. Fiction.

Language: English

Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-414).

Reading Level: 11.0

Interest Level: 9+

Classic tales of mystery, terror, and suspense, including The Fall of the House of Usher—the inspiration for the Netflix series from Mike Flanagan, the director of The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass!

This volume gathers together fourteen of Edgar Allan Poe's richest and most influential tales, including: “The Pit and the Pendulum,” his reimagining of Inquisition tortures; “The Tell-Tale Heart,” an exploration of a murderer’s madness, which Stephen King called “the best tale of inside evil ever written”; “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Poe’s tour de force about a family doomed by a grim bloodline curse; and his pioneering detective stories, “The Purloined Letter” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” featuring a rational investigator with a poetic soul. Also included is Poe’s only full-length novel, Narrative of A. Gordon Pym.
 
With an Introduction by Stephen Marlowe
and an Afterword by Regina Marler

The balloon-hoax
Ms. found in a bottle
A descent into the maelstrom
The muders in the Rue Morgue
The purloined letter
The back cat
The fall of the house of Usher
The pit and the pendulum
The masque of the red death
The cask of amontillado
The assignation --- the tell-tale heart
Diddling
The man that was used up
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym.