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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Marlowe, Regina Marler

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

Mass Market Paperback (Signet Oct. 3, 2006)
Classic tales of mystery, terror, imagination, and suspense from the celebrated master of the macabre.This volume gathers together fourteen of Edgar Allan Poe's richest and most influential tales, including: “The Pit and the Pendulum,” his reimagining of Inquisition tortures; “The Tell-Tale Heart,” an exploration of a murderer’s madness, which Stephen King called “the best tale of inside evil ever written”; “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Poe’s 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 Poe’s only full-length novel, Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. With an Introduction by Stephen Marlowe and an Afterword by Regina Marler
Series
Signet Classics
ISBN
0451530314 / 9780451530318
Pages
432
Weight
6.4 oz.
Dimensions
4.2 x 1.1 in.

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