The Masters of Horror for Halloween: The Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce & Arthur Machen – All in One Premium Edition

by Edgar Allan Poe

e-artnow presents to you this unique collection made especially for Halloween with carefully picked out stories from the very masters of the H. P. The Call of Cthulhu The Shadow Over Innsmouth Dagon The Dunwich Horror The Picture in the House The Outsider The Silver Key In the Vault The Whisperer in Darkness The Thing on the Doorstep The Shadow out of Time The Colour out of Space The Music of Erich Zann The Haunter of the Dark The Rats in the Walls Pickman's Model From Beyond Herbert West-Reanimator At The Mountains Of Madness Edgar Allan The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Pit and the Pendulum The Tell-Tale Heart The Masque of the Red Death The Black Cat The Murders in the Rue Morgue Ambrose The Damned Thing An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge The Devil's Dictionary Chickamauga Arthur The Three Impostors The Hill of Dreams The Terror The Secret Glory The White People The Great God Pan The Inmost Light The Shining Pyramid The Red Hand The Great Return

1735 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 10, 2019

About the author

The 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.

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Reviews

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you are looking for a sampling of Occult & Supernatural Tales from four of the masters of this genre than this book is for you.

H. P. Lovecraft:
The Call of Cthulhu 5⭐
The Shadow Over Innsmouth 5⭐
Dagon 5⭐
The Dunwich Horror 5⭐
The Picture in the House 5⭐
The Outsider 4⭐
The Silver Key 4⭐
In the Vault 4⭐
The Whisperer in Darkness 4.5⭐
The Thing on the Doorstep 5⭐
The Shadow out of Time 5⭐
The Colour out of Space 5⭐
The Music of Erich Zann 4⭐
The Haunter of the Dark 5⭐
The Rats in the Walls 5⭐
Pickman's Model 5⭐
From Beyond 4.25⭐
Herbert West-Reanimator 5⭐
At The Mountains of Madness 5⭐

Edgar Allan Poe:
The Fall of the House of Usher 5⭐
The Cask of Amontillado 5⭐
The Pit and the Pendulum 5⭐
The Tell-Tale Heart 5⭐
The Masque of the Red Death 5⭐
The Black Cat 5⭐
The Murders in the Rue Morgue 5⭐

Ambrose Bierce:
The Damned Thing 4⭐
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 5⭐
The Devil's Dictionary 4⭐
Chickamauga 4.5⭐

Arthur Machen
The Three Impostors 5⭐
The Hill of Dreams 4⭐
The Terror 3.5⭐
The Secret Glory 3⭐
The White People 3.5⭐
The Great God Pan 5⭐
The Inmost Light 3.75⭐
The Shining Pyramid 3.5⭐
The Red Hand 3.5⭐
The Great Return 4⭐