GOTHIC & HORROR - Edgar Allan Poe Edition (Illustrated)

This is edition presents to you Edgar Allan Poe''s greatest gothic & horror stories. His most recurring themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning.MetzengersteinThe AssignationBereniceMorellaKing PestShadowSilenceLigeiaThe Fall of the House of UsherWilliam WilsonThe Man of the CrowdThe Oval PortraitThe Masque of the Red DeathThe Pit and the PendulumThe Tell-Tale HeartThe Black CatThe Premature BurialThe Oblong BoxThe Imp of the PerverseThe Facts in the Case of M. ValdemarThe Cask of AmontilladoHop-FrogBiography:The Dreamer by Mary Newton StanardEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic, best known for his poetry and short stories of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country''s earliest practitioners of the short story.