The fall of the house of Usher and other tales

The celebrated master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe brought his nightmare imaginings to life in his classic stories told in his signature dark and vibrant style.

This volume gathers together fourteen of his richest and most influential tales, including: The Pit and the Pendulum, his reimagining of Inquisition tortures; The Tell-Tale Heart, an exploration of a murderers madness, which Stephen King called the best tale of inside evil ever written; The Fall of the House of Usher, Poes tour de force about a family doomed by a grim bloodline curse; and his pioneering detective stories, The Purloined Letter and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, featuring a rational investigator with a poetic soul.

Also included is Poes only full-length novel, Narrative of A.

Gordon Pym.With an Introduction by Stephen Marlowe and an Afterword by Regina Marler