Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Signature Classics)

This collection or Poe's work contains come of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly insoluble mysteries. 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are key works in the horror cannon, while in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Mystery of Marie Rogêt' we find the origins of modern detective fiction. Collectively, these tales represent the best of Edgar Allen Poe's prose work before his premature death in 1849.. Table of contents:. The Gold BugThe Facts in the Case of M. ValdemarMS. Found in a BottleA Descent into the MaelstromThe Murders in the Rue MorgueThe Mystery of Marie RogêtThe Purloined LetterThe Fall of the House of UsherThe Pit and the PendulumThe Premature BurialThe Black CatThe Masque of the Red DeathThe Case of AmontilladoThe Oval PortraitThe Oblong BoxThe Tell-Tale HeartLigeiaLoss of BreathShadow - A ParableSilence - A FableThe Man of the CrowdSome Words with a Mummy