Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Stories (Unabridged)
Description of book
The complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories, read by award-award winning actor Jonathan Keeble.
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre, and is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.
The 55+ stories included here are:
- A Descent into the Maelstrom
- A Predicament
- A Tale of Jerusalem
- A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
- Berenice
- Bon-Bon
- Diddling
- Eleonora
- Four Beasts in One-The Homo-Cameleopard
- Hop-Frog
- How to Write a Blackwood Article
- King Pest
- Landor's Cottage
- Ligeia
- Lionising
- Loss of Breath
- Mellonta Tauta
- Mesmeric Revelation
- Metzengerstein
- Morella
- Manuscript Found in a Bottle
- Mystification
- Never Bet the Devil Your Head
- Shadow - A Parable
- Silence - A Fable
- Some Words with a Mummy
- The Assignation
- The Black Cat
- The Cask of Amontillado
- The Colloquy of Monos and Una
- The Devil in the Belfry
- The Domain of Arnheim
- The Duc de L'Omelette
- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Gold-Bug
- The Imp of the Perverse
- The Masque of the Red Death
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
- The Oblong Box
- The Oval Portrait
- The Pit and the Pendulum
- The Power of Words
- The Premature Burial
- The Purloined Letter
- The Spectacles
- The Sphinx
- The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
- The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
- Thou Art the Man
- Three Sundays in a Week
- Von Kempelen and His Discovery
- Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
- William Wilson
- X-ing a Paragrab
