The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe

The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe Collection, #9) (Novels.Man, #18) (Classics Illustrated JES, JES45) (American Classics) (Phoenix 60p paperbacks) (Atlantic Classic Crime) (Modern Library Classics (eBook)) (Crime Masterworks) (Pulp fictions) (Modern Library) (Easy Reader S.) (Transaction Large Print S.) (Tale Blazers: American Literature) (Classic Fiction S.) (Penguin Classics 60s S.) (Poe, #3)

by Edgar Allan Poe

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.

Reviewed by Cameron Trost on

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This was one of the first works of detective fiction written in English and, in my view, it still holds its place as one of the very best.

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