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Tales of Mystery Edgar Allan Poe Adapted by Janet Olearski ,,The Fall of the House of Usher" describes the final days of a tormented and tragic family. In "The Oval Portrait," a brilliant but obsessed artist sacrifices love for art. And in ,,The Masque of the Red Death", Prince Prospero attempts to escape with his friends from a terrible disease that is killing everyone in his land. These three atmospheric stories from the master of Gothic fiction explore the dark side of the human m...

Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ... the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the authors feverish imagination at its creative height.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguins 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poes brilliant tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in The Murders in the Rue M...

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the character of Man.''Including Poe''s most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the ultimate collection of the infamous author''s macabre works.Considered to b...

Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather's disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune.In 1836 he...