THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER AND OTHER TALES
ABOUT THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER AND OTHER TALES
Classic tales of mystery, terror, and suspense, including The Fall of the House of Usher-the inspiration for the Netflix series from Mike Flanagan, the director of The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass!
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
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty.
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POE EDGAR ALLAN
Edgar Allan Poe nació en Boston el 19 de enero de 1809 y murió en Baltimore el 7 de octubre de 1849. Hijo de actores itinerantes, quedó huérfano muy pequeño y fue criado por John Allan, de quien tomó su segundo nombre. Estudió en la Universidad de Virginia y en la Academia Militar de West Point, aunque no concluyó sus estudios. Se destacó como poeta, narrador, crítico y periodista, considerado maestro del cuento moderno, pionero del relato policial y de la ciencia ficción. Entre sus obras más célebres figuran El cuervo, Los crímenes de la calle Morgue y El gato negro.
