The undisputed master of terror and mystery,Edgar Allan Poe was a unique inventor in fiction.

 As readers will discover, Poe possessed an unrivalled capacity to create atmosphere and suspense, and to probe the dark depths of the human psyche. All the stories in this volume push back the boundaries, making the improbable possible, the familiar terrifying and strange.

 In"The Fall of the House of Usher"and"The Black Cat"hewrote the first and best tales of terror; with "The Murdersin the Rue Morgue"and his fictional detective M. Dupin he invented the detective story; and tales such as "MS. Found in a Bottle"and"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" pioneered modern science-fiction.

 As readers will discover, Poe possessed an unrivalled capacity to create atmosphere and suspense, and to probe the dark depths of the human psyche. All the stories in this volume push back the boundaries, making the improbable possible, the familiar terrifying and strange.

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MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE

THE ASSIGNATION

LIGEIA

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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

WILLIAM WILSON

THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE

A DESCKNT INTO THE MAILSTROM

THE ISLAND OF THE FAY

THE COLLOQUY OF MONOS AND UNA

THE OVAL PORTRAIT

THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATE

THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET

THE PIT AND THK PKNDULUM

THE TELL-TALE HEART

THE GOLD-BUG

THE BLACK CAT

THE PREMATURE BURIAL

THE PUKLOINED LETTER

THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE

THE FACTS IN THK CASE OF M. VALDEMAR

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO

THE DOMAIN OF ARNHEIM

WON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY