Edgar Allan Poe

The importance of Edgar Allan Poe to literary history can hardly be exaggerated; his genius and originality, both in terms of language and technique, influenced the French Symbolists of the late 19th century and thus changed the course of modern literature. Although chiefly remembered for his short stories, poetry was his first love, and this magnificently decorated edition presents Poe's complete poems in addition to his most important critical essays...

An illustrated collection of stories by the well-known horror author, including "The Gold Bug, " "The Tell-tale Heart, " "The Fall of the House of Usher, " and "The Pit and the Pendulum."

In this twist on Edgar Allan Poe's gothic short story, a wealthy teenaged girl who can afford a special mask to protect her from the plague that decimated humanity in the mid-1800s, falls in love, becomes caught up in a conspiracy to overthrow an oppressive government, and faces the threat of a new plague.

Judged guilty by the Inquisition, a condemned man is slowly tortured. Includes seven of Poe's most popular and influential short stories. Complete, unabridged text as originally published. Generously annotated with hundreds of extended captions. Lavishly illustrated in color and black and white, featuring line drawings, maps, photographs, diagrams, and paintings, many of which date from when the story was written.

Collects more than twenty poems and selections from the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, including "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," and "The Bells."