Tales of Mystery and Imagination [Hardcover]

Edgar Allan Poe (Author), Harry Clarke (Illustrator)

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Publication Date: 2007

Edgar Allan Poe is a consumate genius of the macabre, and his short stories - 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' among them - pioneered the development of modern horror and detective fiction. They carry a palpable sense of foreboding and of brooding evil, reflecting the nightmarish quality of the writer?s own short and troubled life. Contains 23 macabre classics: Ms. Found in a Bottle, Berenice, Morella, Lionizing, The Assignation, King Pest, Silence - A Fable, A Descent into the Maelstrom, Ligeia, The Fall of the House of Usher, William Wilson, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Colloquy of Monos and Una, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gold-Bug, The Black Cat, The Premature Burial, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Cask of Amontillado, Landor's Cottage, Edgar Allan Poe's tales were first published in various periodicals and collections during the 1830s and 1840s. This selection retains the spelling and punctuation of the original editions, with a few minor emendations. Harry Clarke's illustrations were first published in 1919 by George Harrap & Co. in a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination. They are reprinted here with an additional illustration for The Pit and the Pendulum taken from a later edition. This is a second Folio edition (it was first printed in 1999). The book is typeset in Monotype Ehrhardt with Founders Caslon display. Printed on Caxton Wove paper and bound in buckram.

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } Edgar Allan Poe is a consumate genius of the macabre, and his short stories - 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' among them - pioneered the development of modern horror and detective fiction. They carry a palpable sense of foreboding and of brooding evil, reflecting the nightmarish quality of the writer?s own short and troubled life. Contains 23 macabre classics: Ms. Found in a Bottle, Berenice, Morella, Lionizing, The Assignation, King Pest, Silence - A Fable, A Descent into the Maelstrom, Ligeia, The Fall of the House of Usher, William Wilson, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Colloquy of Monos and Una, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gold-Bug, The Black Cat, The Premature Burial, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Cask of Amontillado, Landor's Cottage, Edgar Allan Poe's tales were first published in various periodicals and collections during the 1830s and 1840s. This selection retains the spelling and punctuation of the original editions, with a few minor emendations. Harry Clarke's illustrations were first published in 1919 by George Harrap & Co. in a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination. They are reprinted here with an additional illustration for The Pit and the Pendulum taken from a later edition. This is a second Folio edition (it was first printed in 1999). The book is typeset in Monotype Ehrhardt with Founders Caslon display. Printed on Caxton Wove paper and bound in buckram.

Product Details

Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Folio Society; 2nd Folio Society printing edition (2007)
Language: English
ASIN: B000R901OY
Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.3 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,514,728 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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