Enter the dark and haunting world of Edgar Allan Poe in this collection of four unforgettable works of Gothic fiction, psychological terror, and poetic mystery.The audiobook opens with Poe’s celebrated masterpiece, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” in which an ancient family, a decaying mansion, and a mysterious illness converge in one of Poe’s most enduring tales. It is followed by “Ligeia,” a story of obsessive love, death, and the mysterious possibility of return. “The Premature...

Murder and mayhem abound in three suspenseful stories by Edgar Allan Poe, whose nineteenth-century writing left a lasting impact on the gothic and horror genres.On board a ship, a man watches on as his old friend appears increasingly disturbed. What luggage could be so precious that Cornelius Wyatt would leave it in a locked cabin? ‘The Oblong Box’ is a masterclass in mystery writing. In ‘The Cask of Amontillado’, Italian carnival festivities are the perfect distra...

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to Shakespeare. Spanning centuries and continents, from the Spanish Golden Age to Gothic romance, Vic...

From Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering tales of ratiocination to Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless detective fiction, this sweeping collection gathers thirty stories of crime, deduction, and hidden truth. Gaston Leroux's locked-room ingenuity, Maurice Leblanc's gentleman-thief capers, G. K. Chesterton's paradox-laden puzzles, and Wilkie Collins's sensation-novel suspense sit alongside contributions from Mark Twain, Jules Verne, and Thomas Hardy, tracing the mystery and investigation short story acr...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

Edgar Allan Poe emerges here as one of America's most fascinating and controversial writers: a brilliant, intensely personal artist whose life and work are inseparable. From his orphaned childhood and adoption by John Allan to his difficult years in England, Richmond, the University of Virginia, West Point, and poverty-stricken literary struggle, the portrait follows a proud, solitary temperament shaped by loss, ambition, and dependence on the loving household of Virginia and Mrs. Clemm. I...

Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka opens as a daring blend of poem, philosophy, and cosmic speculation, addressed to readers who feel rather than merely think. In this visionary preface, Poe frames the work as an inquiry into truth, beauty, and the material and spiritual universe, offering it with profound respect to Alexander von Humboldt and inviting judgment on artistic as well as intellectual grounds. The essay then pushes into bold metaphysical territory, probing the limits of reason, the contr...

En ĉi tiu malluma majstraĵo de Edgar Allan Poe, kaptito de la Hispana Inkvizicio vekiĝas al mondo de absoluta timo, kie memoro, korpa doloro kaj la malrapida alproksimiĝo de morto kunfandiĝas en unu el la plej memorindaj vizioj de psikologia hororo. La rakonto transformas unu solan ĉambron en universon de angoro, montrante kiel atendo, observado kaj necerteco povas esti pli teruraj ol rekta ago. Verkita en la romantika kaj gotika etoso de la 19-a jarcento, ĝi esploras la limojn inter racio...

Step beyond the candlelight into a world of ruined castles, haunted houses, forbidden experiments and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Gothic Shadows unites fifteen complete classics by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and other masters of supernatural literature. From Frankenstein and Dracula to Carmilla, The Turn of the Screw, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray, this collection traces the evolution of Gothic fiction across more ...

Step beyond the candlelight into a world of ruined castles, haunted houses, forbidden experiments and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Gothic Shadows unites fifteen complete classics by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and other masters of supernatural literature. From Frankenstein and Dracula to Carmilla, The Turn of the Screw, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray, this collection traces the evolution of Gothic fiction across more ...

Step beyond the candlelight into a world of ruined castles, haunted houses, forbidden experiments and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Gothic Shadows unites fifteen complete classics by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and other masters of supernatural literature. From Frankenstein and Dracula to Carmilla, The Turn of the Screw, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray, this collection traces the evolution of Gothic fiction across more ...

Step beyond the candlelight into a world of ruined castles, haunted houses, forbidden experiments and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Gothic Shadows unites fifteen complete classics by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and other masters of supernatural literature. From Frankenstein and Dracula to Carmilla, The Turn of the Screw, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray, this collection traces the evolution of Gothic fiction across more ...