The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Edgar Allan Poe
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:976
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreClassic horror and ghost stories
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9780099540830
ClassificationsDewey:813.3
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Vintage Classics
Publication Date 6 May 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'The most original genius that America has produced' Alfred, Lord Tennyson Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of all his short stories and novellas contains well-known tales 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart' alongside hidden gems that both unsettle and enthrall the reader.

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

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 *