7 best short stories by Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe, August Nemo

Overview

This is a collection of the 7 best short stories of one of the most read horror, detective and science fiction authors ever to have been published, Edgar Allan Poe. This selection contains the following stories: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Black Cat. Edgar Allan Poe has influenced many great writers and creative minds like Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Machen, H.P. Lovecraft, Jules Verne, Clark Ashton Smith, Charles Baudelaire, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, among many others. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786599154980
Publisher:	Tacet Books
Publication date:	01/25/2021
Pages:	140
Sales rank:	628,564
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals. He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833 published his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other well–known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845 brought him additional fame as a poet.