Tales of Mystery and Imagination first published byĨB East Street, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 9HJĪll rights reserved. TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION Edgar Allan Poe Introduction and Notes by John S. This is a good selection that will give you a good idea whether to pursue more Poe or not. And also seemingly normal incidents are suddenly turned upside down with fantasy and the grotesque. OK, it's not my favorite genre - (and definitely not my favorite cover) but Poe has an ability to describe the sense of madness and horror when people are facing death or the fate of their foul deeds. Missing are his three detective stories (fx the famous The Murders in the Rue Morgue) - I will read them later in a separate collection.

Pit and the Pendulum - The House of Usher - A Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat are among them. This selection has 13 of his best known tales. One in a dungeon facing severe torture that but from what source?, a haunted house in 'Usher', a ship heading for a horrible sci-fi-like fate - and even a rather humorous tale with the title 'Words with a Mummy'. Another driven to madness by a black cat. A murderer haunted by the heartbeat of his victim. A lot of the tales have a storyteller who are on the brink of insanity, if he has not altogether lost it. The title words reveal the grotesque imaginations of a genius writer. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.Terror and mystery. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination feature With an afterword by Jonty Claypole.ĭesigned to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Collectively, these tales represent the best of Edgar Allan Poe's prose work before his premature death in 1849. 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are key works in the horror canon, while in the 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' we find the origins of modern detective fiction. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly unsolvable mysteries. 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.

This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written.

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