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Tales of Terror and Fantasy
s/t: Ten Stories from Tales of Mystery & Imagination
The best of Edgar Allan Poe's stories hold a unique place in literature. Not oniy was he one of the few great masters of the difficult art of the short story ; he was also a truly astonishing originator of styles of fiction which have since developed and become important branches of literature.
The present collection contains his best tales of terror, and also of fantasy—and illustrates his amazing originality. Such classics as The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar and The Pit and the Pendulum hardly need introduction. They are still among the most horrifying crawlers' (as Stevenson called them) in the language—and not even R.L.S. nor Conan Doyle nor M. R. ames have surpassed them.
The Gold Bug is specially interesting as a finger-post leading to the Treasure Island type of story—of hidden treasure and the deciphering of ingenious clues and codes. Young readers will find excitement and true entertainment in these brilliantly imagined stories. They are matchless of their kind.
--front flap
The gold bug.
The cask of amontillado.
The black cat.
MS. found in a bottle.
A descent into the Maelström.
The premature burial.
The facts in the case of M. Valdemar.
The pit and the pendulum.
The fall of the House of Usher.
The tell-tale heart.
The best of Edgar Allan Poe's stories hold a unique place in literature. Not oniy was he one of the few great masters of the difficult art of the short story ; he was also a truly astonishing originator of styles of fiction which have since developed and become important branches of literature.
The present collection contains his best tales of terror, and also of fantasy—and illustrates his amazing originality. Such classics as The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar and The Pit and the Pendulum hardly need introduction. They are still among the most horrifying crawlers' (as Stevenson called them) in the language—and not even R.L.S. nor Conan Doyle nor M. R. ames have surpassed them.
The Gold Bug is specially interesting as a finger-post leading to the Treasure Island type of story—of hidden treasure and the deciphering of ingenious clues and codes. Young readers will find excitement and true entertainment in these brilliantly imagined stories. They are matchless of their kind.
--front flap
The gold bug.
The cask of amontillado.
The black cat.
MS. found in a bottle.
A descent into the Maelström.
The premature burial.
The facts in the case of M. Valdemar.
The pit and the pendulum.
The fall of the House of Usher.
The tell-tale heart.
150 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1973
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About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
7,284 books28.6k 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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May 17, 2009Tales of Terror and Fantasy: Ten Stories from "Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Children's Illustrated Classics, No. 91) by Edgar Allan Poe (1971)
November 5, 2014
The only tales I enjoyed reading were: The Gold Bug, The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum & The Tell-Tale Heart. That's 4 out of 10 stories (2/5). Therefore I'm rating this 2 stars out of 5.
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