TALES OF HORROR
A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved blood-stained teeth, a man is obsessed with the fear of being buried alive - these are only some of the memorable characters and stories included in this volume, which exemplify Poe's inventiveness and natural talent as a storyteller.
Immensely popular both during and after his lifetime, and a powerful influence on generations of writers and film-makers to this day, Edgar Allan Poe is still counted among the greatest short-story writers of all time and seen as one of the initiators of the detective, horror and science-fiction genres.
Contains: 'Metzengerstein', 'MS Found in a Bottle', 'Berenice', 'Morella', 'Ligeia', 'The Devil in the Belfry', 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'William Wilson', 'The Man of the Crowd', 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'A Descent into the Maelstrom', 'Never Bet the Devil Your Head', 'Eleonora', 'The Masque of the Red Death', 'The Tell-Tale Heart', 'The Black Cat', 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'A Tale of the Ragged Mountains', 'The Premature Burial', 'The Oblong Box', 'The Purloined Letter', 'Some Words with a Mummy', 'The Oval Portrait', 'The Imp of the Perverse', 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar', 'The Sphinx'.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Born in Boston, Edgar Allan Poe 1809-49 was brought up by the Allan merchant family after the death of his mother and being abandoned by his father. While studying at the University of Virginia he started self-publishing volumes of poetry, and after a stint in the military began writing essays and fiction for a living. He died of unknown causes - with rabies, cholera, alcoholism and tuberculosis among the hypotheses - in Baltimore.
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POE EDGAR ALLAN
Hijo de actores ambulantes que nunca conoció, Edgar Allan Poe fue acogido al cumplir dos años por la familia de un comerciante que marchó a Inglaterra en 1815. Cursó sus primeros estudios en internados de Londres y Stoke Newington. Asistió brevemente a la Universidad de Virginia y a la academia militar de West Point. En 1827 publicó Tamerlan y otros poemas, que incluía versos escritos a los catorce años. Ocupó su vida en bares, salas de juego y tribunales de justicia; colaboró con efímeras publicaciones y se enemistó con todos sus colegas. En 1833 The Saturday Visitor premió su Manuscrito encontrado en una botella. Tres años después se desposó con su joven prima y acometió la redacción de las más altas historias de terror y suspense del siglo, prefigurando la literatura del siguiente. En 1841 Los crímenes de la rue Morgue inauguró el género policial. Edgar Allan Poe sobrevivió tres años a la muerte de su esposa. Vencido por el delirium tremens, murió el 7 de octubre de 1849 en la sala común de un hospital de Baltimore.