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Beware the black cat. Good luck escaping the pit. Don’t go to that party without your masque. Delight in these and many more stories and poems from the master of dark prose, Edgar Allan Poe. This collection has been specially curated and performed by award-winning audiobook narrator Joe Arden. Dive in to the darkness.

Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849. By October 9, he had already been invented. The obituary published two days after his death — signed "Ludwig," later revealed as Rufus Wilmot Griswold, his literary executor and personal enemy — was not biography. It was preemptive mythology. It described a man of "scant virtues" and "numerous vices," a drunk, a madman, a moral failure whose genius was incidental to his depravity. Within weeks, Griswold had gone further: forging letters, altering texts, inserting fabricated passages into documents Poe had actually written. The archive was ...

Released to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the author’s birth in January 1809, this selection of well-loved, chilling tales from the master of the supernatural is a perfect Christmas gift. The short stories include "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Masque of the Red Death", and "The Fall of the House of Usher". This release also features additional poetry by Poe and a new biography especially written for Naxos AudioBooks by Roy McMillan.

Enter the dark, brilliant world of Edgar Allan Poe—poet, master of suspense, and father of the modern detective story. This essential collection brings together the works that cemented Poe’s reputation as one of literature’s most imaginative and influential voices. From haunting poetry to chilling tales of horror, mystery, and obsession, these stories explore the human psyche in all its fascination and terror.

Edgar Allan Poe, long heralded as the dark master of macabre fiction, is one of America's most celebrated and admired authors. Here, in this collection, are assembled twelve of his most beloved tales and poems. These are the best-of-the-best offerings from literature's finest writer of twisted, spooky tales.