In theGold-Bugis a search for buried treasure. In WilliamWilsona man is haunted in a strange way. Collectively, these tales represent the best of Edgar Allan Poe's prose work before his premature death in 1849. evel Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe UMMARY The ten tales are stories of the supernatural, Tof revenge, near-death experiences and someof the very first detective stories. 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are key works in the horror canon, while in the 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' we find the origins modern detective fiction. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly insoluble mysteries. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Tales of Mystery & Imagination (often rendered as Tales of Mystery and Imagination) is a popular title for posthumous compilations of writings by American author, essayist and poet Edgar Allan Poe and was the first complete collection of his works specifically restricting itself to his suspenseful and related tales.
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