First published 1998
From the twisted mind of Edgar Allan Poe comes a collection of his most captivating short stories. Witness the fall of a noble house, the relentless pursuit of a serial killer, and the unsettling machinations of the human heart. Poe's dark genius lays bare the fragility of our existence, where the line between reality and madness blurs, and the monsters we fear most reside within.
Genres: literary-fiction, 20th-century, horror, 19th-century, gothic, dark
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: monsters-within, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Paris, Valley of the Many-Colored Grass, Heaven, Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome
Period: Carnival
368 pages · Paperback · Oxford University Press
Content warnings: violence