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Cuentos clásicos de terror
Colección de algunos de los mejores cuentos clásicos de terror
Edgar Allan Poe
-Berenice, El Corazón Delator, El Retrato Oval,
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
-Casa en alquiler, Dickon el diablo,
Guy de Maupassant
-¿Fue un sueño?, El horla, La cabellera,
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
-Dos botellas negras, El Intruso, Más allá de los eones
Edgar Allan Poe
-Berenice, El Corazón Delator, El Retrato Oval,
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
-Casa en alquiler, Dickon el diablo,
Guy de Maupassant
-¿Fue un sueño?, El horla, La cabellera,
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
-Dos botellas negras, El Intruso, Más allá de los eones
92 pages, Hardcover
Published November 1, 2003
About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
10.6k books29.6k followersThe name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
October 23, 2015
Buena antología de relatos de terror escritos por algunos de los mejores representantes del género.
February 9, 2026
Mi favorito fue la Cabellera, lo recomiendo para una lectura ligera pero espeluznante.
November 21, 2015
Colección de algunos de los mejores cuentos clásicos de terror
Edgar Allan Poe
-Berenice, El Corazón Delator, El Retrato Oval,
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
-Casa en alquiler, Dickon el diablo,
Guy de Maupassant
-¿Fue un sueño?, El horla, La cabellera,
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
-Dos botellas negras, El Intruso, Más allá de los eones
Me gusta la selección de cuentos realizada por Alaric Balam, para quien este en CDMX el libro se encuentra en la Biblioteca Vasconselos
Edgar Allan Poe
-Berenice, El Corazón Delator, El Retrato Oval,
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
-Casa en alquiler, Dickon el diablo,
Guy de Maupassant
-¿Fue un sueño?, El horla, La cabellera,
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
-Dos botellas negras, El Intruso, Más allá de los eones
Me gusta la selección de cuentos realizada por Alaric Balam, para quien este en CDMX el libro se encuentra en la Biblioteca Vasconselos
October 13, 2016
Lo conseguí por un intercambio de libros que hizo CDMX, sin embargo, pensé que había escogido un buen título, porque vaya, tiene buenos y clásicos autores de terror, pero con este libro hicieron una pobre recopilación de ellos.
De todos los relatos, si acaso uno o dos se rescatan. Lo demás... bueno... ni qué hablar.
De todos los relatos, si acaso uno o dos se rescatan. Lo demás... bueno... ni qué hablar.
November 8, 2019
Es buena la selección de cuentos, muy recomendable para las personas que les gusta este género o los autores. En algunos hay referencias históricas para marcar el contexto. Son cuentos cortos lo que los hace amenos.
November 2, 2015
De Poe a Lovecraft
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews