The classic poems and spine-tingling stories of America’s Gothic master Edgar Allan Poe now
available in one horrifying volume. “It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my
brain but once conceived it haunted me day and night.” Of all the American masters Edgar
Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation as a master of the macabre.
Born in Boston in 1809 to a pair of actors dead at the age of forty the forerunner of modern
American horror continues to loom large in the American imagination. Revered not only for the
eerie beauty of his prose but his formidable satire Poe was a prolific writer of poetry short
stories and criticism in addition to his novels. The best of his works of horror is collected
in this volume including classic timeless stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart ” "The Fall of
the House of Usher " "The Masque of the Red Death " and "The Oval Portrait " as well as lesser
known (yet equally haunting) poems such as Berenice and The Imp of the Perverse and the
quintessential The Raven. All of Poe’s fiction ” G. R. Thompson writes “and the poems as well
can be seen as one coherent piece—as the work of one of the greatest ironists of world
literature.” A celebration of the short works of one of the foremost American Gothic writers
Classic Works of Horror is ideal for Poe fans and horror fiends alike.
