Edgar Allan: 1706 books

People have been fascinated by cats for centuries. From the ancient Egyptians, all the way down to today's cat lovers throughout the world, cats have held a special place in people's lives. Cats are unique creatures. It shouldn't be surprising that they have captured the imaginations of many of the...

The short-story commenced its career as a verbal utterance, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson puts it, with the first men who told their stories round the savage camp-fire.

「我們所見、所感的一切不過是場夢中夢。」 －－愛倫‧坡 願你開啟扉頁， 一同化作夢魘的偵探…… 愛倫．坡， 人性黑暗面的洞察者， 偵探小說的開山祖師， 後世無數創作者的謬斯。 若沒有他，文學、影視、音樂的歷史都將改寫。 本書精選15篇故事，帶領你探索大師的文字魔境，墜落其夢中夢…… 【收錄篇章】 ●屍變...

The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved...

Everybody who wants to become a professional writer always looks for the success of their stories and for being read by the most possible readers. The best way to achieve it is to turn to the greatest authors of all times. This compilation of essays, signed by four well-known English and American writers,...

This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes the final hours of a family tormented...

Imprisoned and condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, an unnamed man is cruelly tortured by his captors even as an enemy army encircles the city. A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe’s stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His...

This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again. From Hannibal...

Le XIXe siècle, âge d’or de la nouvelle s’il en est, marque l’avènement de la presse écrite. Les journaux connaissent un succès croissant et attirent les plus grands auteurs qui y publient leurs nouvelles en marge de l'actualité. Les rubriques « faits divers » suscitent aussi...

La biographie de Poe a été diversement écrite, dénaturée d’abord par des calomnies efficaces, puis remaniée par des essais de réhabilitation excessifs. A la mort de Poe, la première édition de ses œuvres complètes parut, précédée d’une Vie écrite par M. Rufus Griswold. Celui-ci,...

The story follows an unnamed narrator who lives with his cousin and aunt in "The Valley of the Many-Colored Grass", an idyllic paradise full of fragrant flowers, fantastic trees, and a "River of Silence". It remains untrodden by the footsteps of strangers and so they live isolated but happy.After living like this for fifteen years, "Love entered" the hearts of the narrator and his cousin Eleonora.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart – one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the...

Having killed in a fit of passion, an unnamed narrator quickly hides the victim’s body only to be haunted by the victim’s relentless heartbeat. A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe’s stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known...