EXCEPTIONAL EDITION Read the thirty greatest scary short-stories by Edgar Allan Poe, in a beautiful paperback edition: Ms. Found in a Bottle (1833) Berenice (1835) Morella (1835) Silence - A fable (1837) Ligeia (1838) The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) The Man That Was Used Up (1839) The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) The Oval Portrait (1842) The Black Cat (1842) The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) The Pit and The Pendulum (1843) The Gold-Bug (1843) A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844) The Balloon Hoax (1844) The Purloined Letter (1844) The Oblong Box (1844) The Hop-Frog (1845) The Purloined Letter (1845) The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) The Cask of Amontillado (1846) The Sphinx (1846) William Wilson (1839) The Imp Of The Perverse (1850) Eleonora (1850) The Spectacles (1850) Never Bet The Devil Your Head (1850) The Premature Burial (1850) The Masque of the Red Death (1850) The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether (1856) Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, widely regarded as a central figure of American literature. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction and fantasy.

Launched in 1923, the pulp magazine Weird Tales quickly became one of the most important outlets for horror and fantasy fiction and is often associated with writers like H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert Bloch, all of whose work appeared in its pages. But often overlooked is the fact that much of Weird Tales' content was by women writers, some of whom numbered among the magazine's most popular contributors. This volume includes thirteen fantastic tales originally published between 1925 and 1949, written by four of Weird Tales' most prolific female contributors: Greye La Spina, Everil Worrell, Mary Elizabeth Counselman and Eli Colter. Ranging from science fiction to fantasy to horror, these classic tales of mad scientists, deadly curses, ghosts, vampires, and the risen dead remain as thrilling and sensational as when first published.

»A Tale of the Ragged Mountains« is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published in 1844. EDGAR ALLAN POE was born in Boston in 1809. After brief stints in academia and the military, he began working as a literary critic and author. He made his debut with the novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket in 1838, but it was in his short stories that Poe's peculiar style truly flourished. He died in Baltimore in 1849.

Winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical! Follow the footsteps of the father of American horror fiction. Edgar Allan Poe was an oddity: his life, literature, and legacy are all, well, odd. In Poe-Land, J. W. Ocker explores the physical aspects of Poe’s legacy across the East Coast and beyond, touring Poe’s homes, examining artifacts from his life—locks of his hair, pieces of his coffin, original manuscripts, his boyhood bed—and visiting the many memorials dedicated to him. Along the way, Ocker meets people from a range of backgrounds and professions—actors, museum managers, collectors, historians—who have dedicated some part of their lives to Poe and his legacy. Poe-Land is a unique travelogue of the afterlife of the poet who invented detective fiction, advanced the emerging genre of science fiction, and elevated the horror genre with a mastery over the macabre that is arguably still unrivaled today.

A sweet little cat drives a man to insanity and murder.... The grim death known as the plague roams a masquerade ball dressed in red.... A dwarf seeks his final revenge on his captors.... A sister calls to her beloved twin from beyond the grave.... Prepare yourself. You are about to enter a world where you will be shocked, terrified, and, though you'll be too scared to admit it at first, secretly thrilled. Here are four tales -- The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, Hop-Frog, and The Fall of the House of Usher -- by the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. The original tales have been ever so slightly dismembered -- but, of course, Poe understood dismemberment very well. And he would shriek in ghoulish delight at Gris Grimly's gruesomely delectable illustrations that adorn every page. So prepare yourself. And keep the lights on.

"Discover the roots of modern horror by reading the master's favorite stories, those which inspired, awed, and scared him! This is the only collection in print of stories selected by H. P. Lovecraft himself"--Book jacket.