Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

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It is pessimism in full force, and although I strongly disagree with the outlook on life, and appreciate the idealistic utopia offered in the poetry of Percy Shelley and other Romantics much more, I do love the dark beauty of this poem. The Gold Bug and Other Tales" - A collection of Poe's short stories, including "The Gold Bug,""The Black Cat," and "The Pit and the Pendulum. Reason—A Black Cat, The Philosophy of Furniture or Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences.

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In comparison, I'm pretty sure I would be happy to revisit the majority of Lovecraft tales at some point in the future.

He tries to justify his delusions by fixating on his victim's vulture-like eye, treating it as a separate entity from the old man so he doesn't have to experience the guilt of his terrible crime. There are various collections of Edgar Allen Poe available, providing complete coverage of his short stories, poems, essays and his novel.

The Penguin Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

After many days hidden and starving, Arthur leaves his secret place and discovers there has been a mutiny on board! Dupin was a precursor to serialized detective stories like Sherlock Holmes and stories like The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ using logic and reasoning to come to a conclusion about a mystery with the detective not solving the crime for job or money but for the desire to solve a puzzle.So the guy had a wide range, his horror tales being the ones that have mostly remained in the public conscience. I think Poe's poetry holds up a little better; the best of his work is as memorable as anything from Keats or Byron.

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I mean, look at the opening to Usher: ‘ It was a dark and soundless day near the end of the year, and clouds were hanging low in the heavens,’ and this melancholy of grayness and dread permeate every note of the story. Despite the cogent rational descriptions, the narrator seems almost to be haunted by his namesake, and is losing his sanity. The raven, the dark bird of harsh truth, the harbinger of the words he simply doesn’t want to hear, has become demonised.

He is considered one of the fathers of the modern detective story and a master of horror and suspense. Ever since cave man has been sitting by his primitive hearth, huddling close to the fire scared of every shadow, we still keep our primordial fear. Some Words with a Mummy” reprises “The Thousand-And-Second Tale”, only the mummy compares the current world unfavourably with his own world thousands of years before.