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La caída de la casa Usher y otros relatos
En esta colección de relatos, presentamos ocho de los cuentos de terror del autor bostoniano Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) que ahondan más en su obra y otorgan una visión más amplia de la misma, siempre siguiendo el hilo conductor del horror. A raíz de una
160 pages
Published January 15, 2024
About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
10.5k books29.4k followersThe name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. 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. 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. 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. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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July 11, 2026
"Es la viva voz de la perversidad la que nos susurra al oído que cedamos a la tentación de caer"
✨️Este libro contiene diferentes relatos de Poe, en total son ocho, siempre siguiendo el hilo del horror. En general me gustaron.
✨️Dos de de mis favoritos La caída de la casa Usher y El demonio de la perversidad.
El primero trata de un hombre que recibe una carta desesperada de su amigo de la infancia quien vive en una antigua mansión al llegar el protagonista percibe una atmósfera de profunda melancolía.
Este relato muestra cómo el encierro puede destruir a una persona.
✨️El demonio de la perversidad, comienza como un ensayo antes de dar paso a la historia.
Donde el narrador explica el concepto psicológico que el llama "perversidad".
Me gustó bastante, muestra como la culpa, la ansiedad y los impulsos autodestructivos pueden dominar a una persona.
En este cuento el verdadero monstruo es la mente humana.
✨️Este libro contiene diferentes relatos de Poe, en total son ocho, siempre siguiendo el hilo del horror. En general me gustaron.
✨️Dos de de mis favoritos La caída de la casa Usher y El demonio de la perversidad.
El primero trata de un hombre que recibe una carta desesperada de su amigo de la infancia quien vive en una antigua mansión al llegar el protagonista percibe una atmósfera de profunda melancolía.
Este relato muestra cómo el encierro puede destruir a una persona.
✨️El demonio de la perversidad, comienza como un ensayo antes de dar paso a la historia.
Donde el narrador explica el concepto psicológico que el llama "perversidad".
Me gustó bastante, muestra como la culpa, la ansiedad y los impulsos autodestructivos pueden dominar a una persona.
En este cuento el verdadero monstruo es la mente humana.
November 3, 2025
En esta edición el relato principal es La caída de la Casa Usher y luego trae otros 7 relatos más, tengo que decir que me aburrieron en general, de hecho no lo catalogaria como cuentos de terror si no cuentos para dormir.
Le pongo 2 estrellas porque se "salvan"; La caída de la Casa Usher, La verdad sobre el caso del Señor Valdemar, Berenice y El pozo y el péndulo. Estos no me dieron sueño, y esta algo intrigada pero vaya que terror nada de nada.
Le pongo 2 estrellas porque se "salvan"; La caída de la Casa Usher, La verdad sobre el caso del Señor Valdemar, Berenice y El pozo y el péndulo. Estos no me dieron sueño, y esta algo intrigada pero vaya que terror nada de nada.
June 25, 2025
No m'ha agradat gaire l'estil de Poe.
September 13, 2025
Dnf, just not a fan of the writing
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