18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

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A chilling compilation of some of Edgar AllenPoe's best-loved stories, edited by Vincent Price andChandler Brossard and with an introduction byVincent Price, including- The BlackCat - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masqueof the Red Death - The Facts in the Case of M.Valdemar - The Premature Burial - Ms. Found in a Bottle- A Tale of the Ragged Mountains - The Sphinx -The Murders in the Rue Morgue - The Tell-Tale Heart- The Gold-Bug - The System of Dr. Tarr andProf. Fether - The Man That Was Used Up - The BalloonHoax - A Descent Into the Maelstrom - ThePurloined Letter - The Pit and The Pendulum - The Cask ofAmontillado

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Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 in Boston, the son of traveling actors. He published his first book of poemsTamerlane and Other Poemsin 1827, followed byTales of the Grotesque and Arabesque(which included "The Fall of the House of Usher") in 1839, but he did not achieve appreciable recognition until the publication of "The Raven" in 1845. He died in 1849. Vincent Price(1911-1993), the actor, was also a noted art expert and lecturer. Chandler Brossard (1922-1993) was a well-known writer and author of three major works.