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Nevermore: Dark Poems & Tales by the Master of Gothic Literature
The Best of Edgar Allan Poe — Dark Poems & Tales by the Master of Gothic Literature
Step into the beautiful and uncanny world that inspired Nevermore Academy in Netflix’s Wednesday.This edition presents Poe’s essential the sea-bound elegy of Annabel Lee, the midnight refrain of The Raven, the fevered guilt of The Tell-Tale Heart, and the crumbling grandeur of The Fall of the House of Usher.
Arranged in four parts, the book traces the themes that defined his imagination. Haunted Dreams conjures night visions and dreamscapes; Love and Death explores tenderness shadowed by grief; The Gothic Imagination unveils palaces, masquerades, and shadowed cities; and Nevermore brings together the iconic works that secured Poe’s place as America’s master of Gothic literature.
Why readers love this edition
Iconic Works: Poe’s most celebrated poems and tales in one volumeA Guided Journey: Explore the themes of dreams, love, death, and the Gothic imaginationModern Design: Beautifully structured, ideal to read, gift, and keepDiscover the Origin: The inspiration behind Nevermore Academy in Netflix’s Wednesday
Step into the beautiful and uncanny world that inspired Nevermore Academy in Netflix’s Wednesday.This edition presents Poe’s essential the sea-bound elegy of Annabel Lee, the midnight refrain of The Raven, the fevered guilt of The Tell-Tale Heart, and the crumbling grandeur of The Fall of the House of Usher.
Arranged in four parts, the book traces the themes that defined his imagination. Haunted Dreams conjures night visions and dreamscapes; Love and Death explores tenderness shadowed by grief; The Gothic Imagination unveils palaces, masquerades, and shadowed cities; and Nevermore brings together the iconic works that secured Poe’s place as America’s master of Gothic literature.
Why readers love this edition
Iconic Works: Poe’s most celebrated poems and tales in one volumeA Guided Journey: Explore the themes of dreams, love, death, and the Gothic imaginationModern Design: Beautifully structured, ideal to read, gift, and keepDiscover the Origin: The inspiration behind Nevermore Academy in Netflix’s Wednesday
201 pages, Paperback
Published September 15, 2025
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About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
9,905 books28.8k 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 17, 2025
Great for Halloween season. Poems and stories to read in the coming weeks 🎃 Plus looks kinda cool and spooky as a table decoration.
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