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Universally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe’s dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre.

Now, Caedmon Audio presents a classic collection of Poe’s most terrifying tales performed by two of the most brilliant interpreters of his work, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. Between them, they perform 20 of Poe’s chilling stories and poems, creating an unforgettably intense listening experience.

Universally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe’s dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre.

Now, Caedmon…

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction.

Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favour of blurred boundaries between self and other, will and morality, identity and memory, Poe uses the Gothic to question the integrity of human existence. Indeed, Poe is less interested in solving puzzles or in moral retribution than in exposing the misconceptions that make things seem `mysterious' in the first place. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new critical edition selects twenty-four tales and places the most popular - `The Fall of the House of Usher', `The Masque of the Red Death', `The Murders in the Rue Morgue; and `The Purloined Letter' - alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays and political satires.

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created…

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La desdicha es diversa. La desgracia cunde multiforme sobre la tierra. Desplegada sobre el ancho horizonte como el arco iris, sus colores son tan variados como los de este у…

Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of America's most popular and influential writers. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpected flashes of dark humor and irony.

This anthology offers an exceptionally generous selection of Poe's short stories. It includes his famed masterpieces, such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter", featuring Poe's great detective, Dupin, his insightful studies of madness "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"; "The Gold-Bug", his delightful exercise in "code-breaking"; and important but lesser-known tales, such as "Bon-Bon", "The Assignation", and "King Pest."

Also included are some of Poe's most beloved poems - haunting lyrics of love and loss, such as "Annabel Lee", nightmare phantasmagories, such as "The Raven", and his grand experiment in translating sound into words, "The Bells" - as well as his novella "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym".

Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of America's most popular and…

Edgar Allan Poe`s tales and poems draw the reader into an unsettling world of mystery and fear. In "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether", "A Predicament", "The Angel of the Odd" and other stories, characters are caught up in

Edgar Allan Poe`s tales and poems draw the reader into an unsettling world of mystery and fear. In "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether", "A Predicament", "The Angel of…

A unique luxury edition of some of Edgar Allan Poe's famous short stories, Tales of the Macabre takes the reader into the heart of a dozen stories, including The Fall of The House of Usher, Berenice, and The Black Cat... all beautifully illustrated by Benjamin Lacombe. Includes Charles Baudelaire's essay on Poe's life and works.

A unique luxury edition of some of Edgar Allan Poe's famous short stories, Tales of the Macabre takes the reader into the heart of a dozen stories, including The Fall of The House…

It was unnecessary for all to perish, when, by the death of one, it was possible, and even probable, that the rest might be finally preserved.
Travelling aboard a whaling vessel, a young stowaway is swept up in myriad misadventures - mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism - narrowly escaping numerous brushes with death. This rousing story of a daring sea voyage presents its antihero with a host of dilemmas, and offers an important insight into Edgar Allan Poe's work as a whole.
The only complete novel by the infamous gothic horror writer, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" of Nantucket has inspired other classic tales of maritime adventure, such as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea".

It was unnecessary for all to perish, when, by the death of one, it was possible, and even probable, that the rest might be finally preserved.
Travelling aboard a whaling vessel,…

Metzengerstein was the first story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. Metzengerstein follows many conventions of Gothic fiction and, to some, exaggerates those conventions. Consequently, critics and scholars debate if Poe intended the story to be taken seriously or considered a satire of Gothic stories. Regardless, many elements introduced in "Metzengerstein" would become common in Poe's future writing, including the gloomy castle and the power of evil. Because the story follows an orphan raised in an aristocratic household, some critics suggest an autobiographical connection with its author. Plot Summary: The story, told from an unnamed third-person narrator, takes place in Hungary at an unspecified date. The opening passages describe a centuries-long rivalry between two wealthy 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 "ancient" prophecy: "A lofty name shall have a fearful fall when, as the rider over his horse, the mortality of Metzengerstein shall triumph over the immortality of Berlifitzing." Young Frederick, Baron of Metzengerstein, was orphaned at a young age and, thus, inherited the family fortune at age 18. Equipped with enormous wealth and power, he begins to exhibit particularly cruel behavior. "The behavior of the heir out-heroded Herod". Four days after he receives his inheritance, the stables of the rival family Berlifitzing catch fire. The neighborhood "instantaneously" attributed the act of arson to Frederick Metzengerstein.

Metzengerstein was the first story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. Metzengerstein follows many conventions of Gothic fiction and, to some, exaggerates those…

В ваших руках сборник лучшей прозы основоположника мистического рассказа и детективного жанра, мастера изысканных "новелл ужаса" - Эдгара Алана По: "Падение дома Ашеров", "Колодец и маятник", "Маска красной смерти", "Король Мор", "Бочка амонтильядо", "Морэлла", "Черный кот". Какими ослепительно яркими красками рисует он в своих творениях образы Тайны, Красоты, Смерти и Перевоплощения, Ужаса и Любви. Его можно слушать, просто наслаждаясь языком и стилем, абстрагируясь от смысла, а можно снова и снова возвращаться к знакомым строчкам в поисках очередной интерпретации, любой его рассказ - это особое смысловое пространство с бесчисленным множеством измерений и граней. Его творчество всегда на пределе, на вершине, за которой слова уже невозможны...

В ваших руках сборник лучшей прозы основоположника мистического рассказа и детективного жанра, мастера изысканных "новелл ужаса" - Эдгара Алана По: "Падение дома Ашеров", "Колодец…

На самом деле я любил старика. Он ни разу не причинил мне зла и ни разу не нанес обиды. Виной всему был глаз. Да-да, всего лишь один треклятый глаз — голубоватый, подернутый отвратительной пленкой, как у хищной птицы. Стоило старику глянуть на меня, и кровь стыла в моих жилах. Этот глаз не давал мне покоя и сводил меня с ума. И я придумал, как от него избавиться…

На самом деле я любил старика. Он ни разу не причинил мне зла и ни разу не нанес обиды. Виной всему был глаз. Да-да, всего лишь один треклятый глаз — голубоватый, подернутый…

Лихорадка моя была сильна и упорна. Я перепробовал все средства, какие только можно было достать в дикой области Апеннин, и все без успеха. Мой слуга и единственный помощник в уединенном замке был слишком нервен и неловок, чтобы пустить мне кровь, которой, правда, я и без того немало потерял в схватке с бандитами. Не мог я также послать его за помощью. Наконец, я вспомнил о небольшом запасе опиума, который хранился у меня вместе с табаком…

Лихорадка моя была сильна и упорна. Я перепробовал все средства, какие только можно было достать в дикой области Апеннин, и все без успеха. Мой слуга и единственный помощник в…

Эдгар Аллан По - человек ослепительного таланта. Его перу принадлежит более семидесяти новелл, обусловивших возникновение многих литературных школ. Основоположник детективного жанра и жанра научной фантастики, замечательный поэт, критик и журналист, Эдгар По вот уже более полутора столетий остается одним из самых читаемых авторов в мире.
В настоящий том вошли наиболее известные произведения классика американской литературы.

Эдгар Аллан По - человек ослепительного таланта. Его перу принадлежит более семидесяти новелл, обусловивших возникновение многих литературных школ. Основоположник детективного…

"Маска Красной Смерти" - произведение мастера остросюжетной мистики Эдгара Аллана По. Романтик и фантаст Эдгар По описывает самые невероятные события и придает им вид реальности.
Иллюстрации Алексея Томилина и Юлии Евстратовой дополняют текст феерически запечатленными образами

"Маска Красной Смерти" - произведение мастера остросюжетной мистики Эдгара Аллана По. Романтик и фантаст Эдгар По описывает самые невероятные события и придает им вид реальности.…

A manuscript is found. Filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his strange home – and it’s even stranger, jade-green double, seen by that old man on an otherworldly plain where gigantic gods and monsters roam. Soon his earthly abode is no less terrible than this strange vision, as swine-like creatures boil from a cavern beneath the ground and besiege it. But a still greater horror will face the recluse, one more awful than any creature that can be fought or killed.

The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson’s great masterpiece of cosmic fear, is an extraordinary novel that defied all accepted conventions of horror writing, forging in an instant a new, weird direction for the form.

A manuscript is found. Filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his strange home – and it’s even stranger, jade-green…

Houses haunted by the skull-bones of a dead man! Vampires! Haunted steamships! Dolls like Chuckie -- but nicer! Horror fans will adore F. Marion Crawford's Wandering Ghosts: Crawford had a sensibility and a gift a lot like Peter Straub's (though no one could mistake this book for a collection of Straub's stories -- their talents might be similar, but their subject matter isn't). But, oddly, he isn't remembered, like Stoker and Hodgson and Shelley, as a horror writer, nor, like Robert Louis Stevenson, (who gave the world both Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) as a writer of adventure. More like Henry James, we suppose: the man had a reputation, in his day, as a serious writer. Yuck. This book, at least, is a horror collection. We know you'll love it.

Houses haunted by the skull-bones of a dead man! Vampires! Haunted steamships! Dolls like Chuckie -- but nicer! Horror fans will adore F. Marion Crawford's Wandering Ghosts:…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

"An incoherent nightmare of sex..." That was The Westminster Gazette's description of Arthur Machen's first book, The Great God Pan, upon its publication in 1894. An unwittingly complimentary description for one of the greatest works of weird horror and decadence, in which Machen unfurls with his singular eye for the bizarre and macabre the tale of a young girl cursed by her unnatural parentage to become a creature of shape-shifting polysexual demi-human evil.

"An incoherent nightmare of sex..." That was The Westminster Gazette's description of Arthur Machen's first book, The Great God Pan, upon its publication in 1894. An unwittingly…

The Penguin English Library Edition of Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James "I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?" This edition contains two of Henry James's most popular short works. Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conventions? In Daisy Miller Henry James created his first great portrait of the enigmatic and dangerously independent American woman, a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces. Oscar Wilde called James's chilling The Turn of the Screw 'a most wonderful, lurid poisonous little tale'. It tells of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil within the houses, she soon becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

The Penguin English Library Edition of Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James "I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?" This…

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also, to a certain degree, a hoax as it was published without claiming to be fictional, and many at the time of publication (1845) took it to be a factual account. Poe toyed with this for a while before admitting it was a work of pure fiction in his marginalia. The narrator presents the facts of the extraordinary case of Valdemar which have incited public discussion. He is interested in Mesmerism, a pseudoscience involving bringing a patient into a hypnagogic state by the influence of magnetism, a process which later developed into hypnotism. He points out that, as far as he knows, no one has ever been mesmerized at the point of death, and he is curious to see what effects mesmerism would have on a dying person. He considers experimenting on his friend Ernest Valdemar, an author whom he had previously mesmerized, and who has recently been diagnosed with phthisis (tuberculosis). Valdemar consents to the experiment and informs the narrator by letter that he will probably die in twenty-four hours. Valdemar's two physicians inform the narrator of their patient's poor condition. After confirming again that Valdemar is willing to be part of the experiment, the narrator comes back the next night with two nurses and a medical student as witnesses. Again, Valdemar insists he is willing to take part and asks the narrator to hurry, for fear he has "deferred it for too long". Valdemar is quickly mesmerized, just as the two physicians return and serve as additional witnesses. In a trance, he reports first that he is dying - then that he is dead. The narrator leaves him in a mesmeric state for seven months, checking on him daily. During this time Valdemar is without pulse, heartbeat or perceptible breathing, his skin cold and pale.

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An…

Before electric lights and telephones, there were only candles and, at last, gas lights, to banish the darkness. And in that darkness might lurk - who knows? Ghosts, werewolves, vampires, witches, or even the Devil himself!
Such stories were told - and written - to provoke that delicious chill of fear which, even in our own electrified world, millions seek through movies and television. Here are some of the most spine-tingling tales ever written about the starnge and thrilling world of the supernatural.

Before electric lights and telephones, there were only candles and, at last, gas lights, to banish the darkness. And in that darkness might lurk - who knows? Ghosts, werewolves,…

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost stories.

Expiation is a real gem of a ghost story. Two old friends rent a lonely house in an idyllic but remote part of Cornwall. But within a short time of their arrival, they become aware of a mystery about the house.

Why does the vicar behave so oddly when they enquire about a recent grave with the same family name as the owner of the house they have rented? Why does the housekeeper insist on the narrator's changing rooms suddenly? Why does the telephone keep ringing...even though it was disconnected more than a year ago?

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated…

Over the centuries Ireland has preserved a magical, mystical aura that lends itself to tales of the supernatural-from leprechauns and fairies to ghosts and hauntings. Stories and storytelling have always been central to Irish folk culture, and this anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish writers includes contributions from Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Patrick Kennedy, George Moore, and W.B.Yeats. The result is a collection of tingling tales of poltergeists, supernatural experiences, haunted houses, death warnings, and banshees that will chill the blood of readers and listeners alike.

Over the centuries Ireland has preserved a magical, mystical aura that lends itself to tales of the supernatural-from leprechauns and fairies to ghosts and hauntings. Stories and…

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'But it was not only the heart-rending sound that almost paralysed poor Mimi with terror. What she saw was sufficient to fill her with evil dreams for the remainder of her life...' At the estate of Castra Regis in Derbyshire, mystery lurks in the woods, a place where snakes dwell and murderous deeds take place in the darkness. The behaviour of local residents Arabella March and Edgar Caswall further arouse the suspicions of Adam Salton, recently arrived at the invite of his great-uncle. Determined to quell the supernatural malevolence in his midst, Adam embarks on a quest to uncover evil and restore harmony. The final novel from the author of 'Dracula', 'The Lair of the White Worm' is a lesser-known but well-loved classic from the master of gothic horror.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'But it was not only the heart-rending sound that almost paralysed poor Mimi with terror.…

Acknowledged as one of the most brilliant American writers, Edgar Allan Poe crafted a fantastic world filled with mystery and horror that has thrilled readers for generations. This edition includes Poe's most famous tales and poems, including "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Purloined Letter," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Raven," "Lenore," and "Annabel Lee."

Acknowledged as one of the most brilliant American writers, Edgar Allan Poe crafted a fantastic world filled with mystery and horror that has thrilled readers for generations.…

It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend. He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much. The man wore motley. He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells. I was so pleased to see him, that I thought I should never have done wringing his hand.

It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend. He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been…