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Олалла и другие истории, исполненные неизъяснимого ужаса

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Вашингтон Ирвинг. Рип Ван Винкль (рассказ, перевод А. Бобовича), стр. 3-19
Эдгар По. Маска Красной смерти (рассказ, перевод Р. Померанцевой), стр. 20-25
Эдгар По. Колодец и маятник (рассказ, перевод С. Маркиша), стр. 26-41
Эдгар По. Падение дома Ашеров (рассказ, перевод Н. Галь), стр. 41-58
Эдгар По. Бочонок амонтильядо (рассказ, перевод О. Холмской), стр. 58-64
Эдгар По. Лягушонок (рассказ, перевод Н. Галь), стр. 64-73
Эдгар По. Береника (рассказ, перевод И. Гуровой), стр. 73-81
Амброз Бирс. Случай на мосту через Совиный ручей (рассказ, перевод В. Топер), стр. 82-91
Амброз Бирс. Страж мертвеца (рассказ, перевод Н. Рахмановой), стр. 91-101
Амброз Бирс. Человек и змея (рассказ, перевод Н. Волжиной), стр. 101-108
Амброз Бирс. Глаза пантеры (рассказ, перевод А. Елеонской), стр. 108-117
Амброз Бирс. Диагноз смерти (рассказ, перевод О. Холмской), стр. 117-120
Герман Мелвилл. Башня с колоколом (рассказ, перевод С. Сухарева), стр. 121-138
Оскар Уайльд. Кентервильское привидение (рассказ, перевод Ю. Кагарлицкого), стр. 139-166
Оскар Уайльд. Рыбак и его душа (сказка, перевод К. Чуковского), стр. 166-198
Редьярд Киплинг. На краю пропасти (рассказ, перевод А. Шадрина), стр. 199-205
Редьярд Киплинг. Рикша-призрак (рассказ, перевод А. Шадрина), стр. 205-229
Редьярд Киплинг. Необычайная прогулка Морроуби Джукса (рассказ, перевод А. Левинтона), стр. 229-252
Роберт Стивенсон. Олалла (повесть, перевод М. Литвиновой), стр. 253-292
Роберт Стивенсон. Странная история доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда (повесть, перевод И. Гуровой), стр. 292-355

356 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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