Novels.Man Series

Book 11

The Assignation/The Pit and the Pendulum

Berenice and Other Short Stories

The Balloon-Hoax/Ms. Found in a Bottle/The Oval Portrait

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / The Black Cat / The Fall of the House of Usher

The Gold-Bug Four Beasts in One-The Homo-Cameleopard

Collected in these two volumes are Poe's legendary tales of terror that attest to his stylistic brilliance in evoking an atmosphere of gloom and obsession. Creatures, eyes, coffins, walls--all are symbols in Poe's efforts to create an aura of evil. What reader would not share the anxiety of the traveler in The Fall of the House of Usher, who upon his first glimpse of the house, finds an -insufferable gloom pervading my spirit...an utter depression of the soul...an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart-? In volume 2 his nightmarish visions take us down untraveled paths revealing the dark side of the human experience.

Book 19

The Mystery of Marie Roget

by Edgar Allan Poe

Published 8 August 2000

When the body of Marie Roget is found in the Seine River, detective C. Auguste Dupin uses his superior deductive skills to discover the identity of the murderer. "The Mystery of Marie Roget" is based in part on the actual murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers in New York in the mid-nineteenth century, and is believed to be the first example of real-life crime used as a foundation for fictional narrative. A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe's stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Tell-Tale Heart".

Book 20