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Tales of suspense / Edgar Allan Poe ; illustrations by Steve Salerno ; afterword by James Russell Lowell.

Summary:

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the indisputable greats of American literature. Part of the American Romantic movement, his horror stories are known the world over and have become classics. Meanwhile, stories like The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Mystery of Marie Roget helped found the detective novel genre, that would later come into its own with the likes of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, half a century later.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0895772256
  • ISBN: 9780895772251
  • Physical Description: 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, c1986.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
The pit and the pendulum -- The fall of the House of Usher -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The oblong box -- The cask of Amontillado -- The purloined letter -- The gold-bug -- Berenice -- The premature burial -- A tale of the ragged mountains -- William Wilson -- Morella -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- Hop-frog -- The tell-tale heart -- The imp of the perverse -- Metzengerstein -- The black cat -- The masque of the red death.
Genre: Short stories.
Detective and mystery fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.

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1001 . ‡aPoe, Edgar Allan, ‡d1809-1849.
24510. ‡aTales of suspense / ‡cEdgar Allan Poe ; illustrations by Steve Salerno ; afterword by James Russell Lowell.
260 . ‡aPleasantville, N.Y. : ‡bReader's Digest Association, ‡cc1986.
300 . ‡a271 p. : ‡bill. ; ‡c24 cm.
336 . ‡atext ‡btxt ‡2rdacontent
337 . ‡aunmediated ‡bn ‡2rdamedia
338 . ‡avolume ‡bnc ‡2rdacarrier
5050 . ‡aThe pit and the pendulum -- The fall of the House of Usher -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The oblong box -- The cask of Amontillado -- The purloined letter -- The gold-bug -- Berenice -- The premature burial -- A tale of the ragged mountains -- William Wilson -- Morella -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- Hop-frog -- The tell-tale heart -- The imp of the perverse -- Metzengerstein -- The black cat -- The masque of the red death.
5200 . ‡aEdgar Allan Poe is one of the indisputable greats of American literature. Part of the American Romantic movement, his horror stories are known the world over and have become classics. Meanwhile, stories like The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Mystery of Marie Roget helped found the detective novel genre, that would later come into its own with the likes of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, half a century later.
655 7. ‡aShort stories. ‡2lcgft
655 7. ‡aDetective and mystery fiction. ‡2lcgft.
901 . ‡a136426 ‡bUnknown ‡c136426 ‡tbiblio

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