Graphic Classics Volume 21: Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery

by Edgar Allan Poe, Antonella Caputo, Rod Lott, Rich Rainey, Tom Pomplun (Editor)

Overview

Poe's Tales of Mystery features a new full-color comics adaptation of Poe's seminal detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". Also "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", "The Man of the Crowd", "MS Found in a Bottle" and nine more stories and poems by the creator of the mystery genre. Artists include Michael Manning, Reno Maniquis, Brad Teare, Nelson Evergreen and Lisa K. Weber.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780982563021
Publisher:	Eureka Productions
Publication date:	09/13/2011
Series:	Eureka Graphic Classics Series , #21
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	13 - 16 Years

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.