Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of all his short stories and novellas contains well-known tales'The Pit and the Pendulum'and'The Tell-Tale Heart'alongside hidden gems that both unsettle and enthrall the reader.
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Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099540830Number of pages: 976Weight: 500 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 35 mm
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Poe's work as a whole is a series of haunting improvisations on themes from the macabre that are hard to categorise,dazzlingly original and posthumously influential on an extraordinary range of writers from Baudelaire and RL Stevenson to Yeats,Wilde and BorgesHis work continues to enthral. His greatest tales (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart,The Pit and the Pendulum) radiate a dark humour and mockery that strike an oddly modern noteIf genius is an exceptional capacity for imaginative creation,Poe had it in spadesHis reputation as a master of the grotesque and macabre has veiled the real cause of his fame: an astonishing mastery of language and literary technique which made Arthur Ransome,himself no mean story technician and a considerable literary critic,liken his stories to rare coloured goblets or fantastic metalwork
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