![]() Tales of Mystery and Imagination first published byĨB East Street, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 9HJĪll rights reserved. TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION Edgar Allan Poe Introduction and Notes by John S. This is a good selection that will give you a good idea whether to pursue more Poe or not. And also seemingly normal incidents are suddenly turned upside down with fantasy and the grotesque. OK, it's not my favorite genre - (and definitely not my favorite cover) but Poe has an ability to describe the sense of madness and horror when people are facing death or the fate of their foul deeds. Missing are his three detective stories (fx the famous The Murders in the Rue Morgue) - I will read them later in a separate collection. Pit and the Pendulum - The House of Usher - A Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat are among them. This selection has 13 of his best known tales. One in a dungeon facing severe torture that but from what source?, a haunted house in "Usher", a ship heading for a horrible sci-fi-like fate - and even a rather humorous tale with the title "Words with a Mummy". Another driven to madness by a black cat. A murderer haunted by the heartbeat of his victim. ![]() A lot of the tales have a storyteller who are on the brink of insanity, if he has not altogether lost it. ![]() The title words reveal the grotesque imaginations of a genius writer. ![]()
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