Tales of Mystery & Imagination

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

Horror stories, science fiction, detective stories and satirical sketches -the variety of Poe will chill and delight

Locked doors, sealed cavities, bricked-up alcoves and premature burial close in on Poe's narrators as they , like their victims, are cut off from light, air and human society. Partly, Poe's stories resonate as the disordered chambers' of the narrators' minds but also they suggest archetypal, if extreme psychological states.

yet Poe was an incurable hoaxer, and in telling some wonderful short stories he also told some excessively tall tales.

The most comprehensive paperback edition available, introduction, selected criticism chronology of Poe's life and times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780460873420
Publisher:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication date:	08/15/1993
Series:	Everyman Paperback Classics
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	640
Sales rank:	928,903
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 1.90(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809. His parents, both touring actors, died before he was three. He was raised by John Allan, a prosperous Virginian merchant. Poe published his first volume of poetry while still a teenager. He worked as an editor for magazines in Philadelphia, Richmond and New York, and achieved respect as a literary critic. In 1836, he married his thirteen year-old cousin. It was only with the publication of The Raven and other Poems in 1845 that he achieved national fame as a writer. Poe died in mysterious circumstances in 1849.

Table of Contents

TOC: William Wilson; A Tale of the Ragged Mountains; The Domain of Arnheim; Landor's Cottage; The Elk; The Island of the Fay; The Sphinx; The Gold Bug; The Man of the Crowd; Shadow; Silence: The Colloquy of Monos and Una; The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Assignation; Ligeia; Eleonora; Berenice; Morella; The Oval Portrait; King Pest; The Masque of the Red Death; The Cask of Amontillado; Metzengerstein; The Pit and the Pendulum; Hop-Frog; A Descent into the Maelström; MS Found in a Bottle; The Premature Burial; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Tell-Tale Heart; Mellonta Tauta; The Thousand-and-second Tale of Scheherazade; The Oblong Box; The Spectacles; Z-ing a Paragrab; The Imp of the Perverse; The Balloon Hoax; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Mystery of Marie Roget; The Purloined Letter; 'Thou Art the Man'; Loss of Breath; Bon-Bon; The Devil in the Belfry; The Black Cat.