Edgar Allan: 1706 books

In "The Premature Burial", the first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with things such as "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy", a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance. This leads to his fear of being...

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer

A fable about a demon and a man in an enchanted land.

With an essay by D. H. Lawrence. '... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...' Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of...

The e-book «Mystery Tales» (Illustrated edition) is a fabulous compilation of the best Poe’s suspenseful and imaginative tales. The «Animedia Company» e-book edition (2013) contains 27 original color illustrations by Arthur Rackham and Byam Shaw, which were carefully...

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment. As...

First published in a 1843 edition of The Pioneer, The Tell-Tale Heart is one of Poe's best-known stories. In it, an unreliable narrator is increasingly troubled by the clouded eye of the old man he lives with. Similar to The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart focuses on the effects of mental instability, crime, and guilt.

Purportedly, Poe's enormous reputation in Europe is due mainly to Baudelaire's translation, which some consider better than the original. Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 - 31 August 1867) was a nineteenth century French poet, critic and translator. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Baudelaire's...

Personne ne trouvera donc un système de locomotion plus expéditif ? Ce train de petit trot est, à mon avis, une véritable torture. Sur ma parole, depuis que nous sommes partis, nous n'avons pas fait plus de cent milles à l'heure. Les oiseaux mêmes nous battent, quelques-uns au moins. Je vous...

Collection of 100 classic short stories, selected for use in middle school and high school. These include: The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche by Apuleius, Present at a Hanging and Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman, The Man Without a Country by Hale, The Wonderful...

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"El gato negro", un clásico de la literatura de terror, narra la historia de un hombre que enloquece ante la presencia de un gato negro. El amor de su esposa por el gato llega a tal grado que el hombre termina asesinándola y emparedándola en el sótano de su casa. La policía descubre...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).  *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.  *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Works Included: Mystification The Oblong...

The story takes place in Hungary, between two rival families: the Metzengersteins and the Berlifitzings. The bitter enmity between the two families is so old that no one knows how far back it dates. The narrator states that its origin appears to rely on an old prophecy: "A lofty name shall have...