The Fall Of The House Of Usher And Other Stories

By (author) Brontë, Charlotte; By (author) Wilde, Oscar; Introduction by Welsh Irvine; By (author) Austen, Jane; By (author) Alcott, Louisa May; By (author) Stevenson, Robert Louis; By (author) Poe, Edgar Allan
Description:

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Poe''s most macabre and irresistible stories with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Edgar Allan Poe''s stories uncover the deeply unnerving strangeness lurking within us all. His genius for horror and suspense went on to influence the world, from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of his best short stories contains the well-known works ''The Pit and the Pendulum'' and ''The Tell-Tale Heart'' alongside a wide range of delightfully terrifying tales to unsettle and enthrall.

This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.

Review quote:
Poe''s work as a whole is a series of haunting improvisations on themes from the macabre that are hard to categorise, dazzlingly original and posthumously influential on an extraordinary range of writers from Baudelaire and RL Stevenson to Yeats, Wilde and Borges—Observer

His work continues to enthral. His greatest tales (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum) radiate a dark humour and mockery that strike an oddly modern note—Sunday Times

If genius is an exceptional capacity for imaginative creation, Poe had it in spades—Daily Mail

His reputation as a master of the grotesque and macabre has veiled the real cause of his fame: an astonishing mastery of language and literary technique which made Arthur Ransome, himself no mean story technician and a considerable literary critic, liken his stories to rare coloured goblets or fantastic metalwork—Independent
Biographical note:
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, USA, in 1809. Poe, short story writer, editor and critic, he is best known for his macabre tales and as the progenitor of the detective story. He died in 1849, in mysterious circumstances, at the age of forty.