By Edgar Allan Poe
The vintage poems and spine-tingling tales of a Gothic American grasp gathered in a single volume.
Of all of the American masters, Edgar Allan Poe staked out probably the main distinct and bright recognition, as a grasp of the macabre. Even at the present time, within the age of horror video clips and high-tech haunted homes, Poe is the 1st number of leisure for individuals who need a spine-chilling thrill.
Born in Boston in 1809, and lifeless on the age of forty, Poe wrote throughout a number of fields in the course of his lifestyles, famous for his poetry and brief tales in addition to his feedback. the simplest of every of those is accrued the following, together with the vintage poem The Raven, and undying tales like The Tell-Tale Heart. In his advent to this quantity, G. R. Thompson argues that Poe used to be an exceptional satirist and comedic craftsman, in addition to an impressive Gothic author. "All of Poe's fiction," Thompson writes, "and the poems besides, may be obvious as one coherent piece—as the paintings of 1 of the best ironists of worldwide literature."
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