Fall of The House of Usher and Other Tales, The (Signet Classics)

Classic tales of mystery, terror, imagination, and suspense from the celebrated master of the macabre. This volume gathers together fourteen of Edgar Allan Poe's richest and most influential tales, including: The Pit and the Pendulum, his reimagining of Inquisition tortures; The Tell-Tale Heart, an exploration of a murderers madness, which Stephen King called the best tale of inside evil ever written; The Fall of the House of Usher, Poes tour de force about a family doomed by a grim bloodline curse; and his pioneering detective stories, The Purloined Letter and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, featuring a rational investigator with a poetic soul. Also included is Poes only full-length novel, Narrative of A. Gordon Pym . With an Introduction by Stephen Marlowe and an Afterword by Regina Marler