Classic tales of mystery,terrorimaginationand suspense from the celebrated master of the macabre. This volume gathers together fourteen of Edgar Allan Poe’s richest and most influential talesincluding: ΓÇ£The Pit and the PendulumΓÇ¥ his reimagining of Inquisition tortures; ΓÇ£The Tell-Tale HeartΓÇ¥ an exploration of a murdererΓÇÖs madnesswhich Stephen King called ΓÇ£the best tale of inside evil ever writtenΓÇ¥; ΓÇ£The Fall of the House of UsherΓÇ¥ PoeΓÇÖs tour de force about a family doomed by a grim bloodline curse; and his pioneering detective storiesΓÇ£The Purloined LetterΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£The Murders in the Rue MorgueΓÇ¥ featuring a rational investigator with a poetic soul. Also included is PoeΓÇÖs only full-length novelNarrative of A. Gordon Pym. With an Introduction by Stephen Marlowe and an Afterword by Regina Marler