He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. Librarian's note: this is a collection by the author of short stories, and one novel, Entries for each of them on their own can be found elsewhere on Goodreads, including the specific entry for the story, 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. The Signet Classic Edition of 'The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales' has over 250,000 copies in print! Found in a Bottle', 'A Descent into a Maelstrom', 'The Black Cat', 'The Pit and the Pendulum', The Assignation', 'Diddling', 'The Man That Was Used Up', and the novel, 'Narrative of A. The work includes a new introduction by Stephen Marlowe, author of 'The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus' and 'The Lighthouse at the End of the World.'īesides the five stories already mentioned, it also contains: 'The Balloon-Hoax', 'Ms.

Some of the celebrated tales contained in this unique volume include the world's first detective stories - 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Purloined Letter', and three stories sure to make a reader's hair stand on end - 'The Cask of Amontillado', 'The Tell-Tale Heart', and 'The Masque of the Red Death'. The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe, from the 1830s and 40s, remain among the most brilliant and influential works in American literature.

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