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The Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe: 70 Tales of Horror, Mystery, Illusion & Humor (Illustrated): Enriched edition. Tales of Macabre Gothic Horror & Psychological Depth
In 'The Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allan 70 Tales of Horror, Mystery, Illusion & Humor (Illustrated)', readers are treated to a collection of Poe's most famous works, showcasing his mastery of the macabre genre. Each story is intricately crafted with a blend of Gothic elements and psychological depth, leaving readers both spellbound and disturbed by the dark and haunting themes. The inclusion of illustrations adds an extra layer of visual stimulation, enhancing the overall reading experience. This compilation serves as a testament to Poe's enduring legacy as a pioneer of American literature. With a narrative style characterized by its vivid imagery and poetic language, Poe's stories continue to captivate and terrify readers to this day. A must-read for fans of classic horror and mystery fiction, this book showcases the breadth and depth of Poe's creativity and literary talent, making it a timeless masterpiece in the world of literature.
1635 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 16, 2024
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Edgar Allan Poe
10.6k books29.5k 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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September 24, 2025
Poe's work needs no reviews from me, but I can safely recommend this collection. I read it story by story, digesting each one before moving to the next, and finished it in over a year. The stories are not listed chronologically, but grouped together by their style: the first 4-5 of them are the "tales of ratiocination" for example, then comes the real macabre ones, and then first examples of sci-fi, and satirical tales/essays, and finally his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. I think this arrangement makes sense.
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