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Tales, by Edgar Allan Poe, is a collection of twenty-five stories from the literary father of the mysterious and the macabre. These individual pieces, which include 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. And 'Silence: A Fable', together make up the body of both Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, and Tales of the Folio Club. Taken as a whole, Poe's writing has cast its dark and exquisite shadow over many genres of literature, from the mysteries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the science fiction of Jules Verne, but in this collection the author's ability to explore the darker corners of the readers' psyche comes to the fore. Such is the power of his story-telling that his tales retain their eerie power to delight and terrify in equal measure more than a century and a half after his death.… (more)
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This book has a work by Poe that I don't see in a lot of collections. Here's the list:
Edgar Allan Poe (an introduction, and brief biography)
The Fall of the House of Usher
Ligeia
The Masque of the Red Death
The Cask of Amontillado
The Pit and the Pendulum
William Wilson
A Descent Into the Maelstrom
The Gold Bug
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Purloined Letter
I believe this collection may be the only one I own with "William Wilson" (and I'm not sure that I'd ever read it before now). It's an interesting little pastiche, as Poe's work often is. I lift a nice Amontillado in Poe's honor, every now and then.