Essential Tales and Poems

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Featured in these pages are Edgar Allan Poe's best-loved and most-feared literary creations: the clever C. August Dupin, precursor to Sherlock Holmes; the terrifying ghouls of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque; as well as the tragic sensibilities of The Raven and Other Poems. This is an essential treasury for Poe novices and experts alike.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849) was a self-destructive but brilliant writer whose supernatural works formatively shaped the horror and speculative genres. He was also one of the first writers of detective fiction as well as a formidable literary critic.

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