First published 2018
This collection presents thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's most celebrated tales and verses, each accompanied by original artwork from Jason Eckhardt. The volume opens with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," where C. Auguste Dupin investigates brutal killings in a locked room. "The Tell-Tale Heart" follows a narrator consumed by guilt after murdering an old man, driven mad by the sound of a beating heart beneath floorboards. "Metzengerstein" tells of a young baron's obsession with a mysterious horse that may embody his family's ancient curse. "The Gold-Bug" chronicles William Legrand's discovery of a cryptogram leading to buried treasure. Other selections span Poe's range from gothic horror to detective fiction to lyric poetry. Scholar S.T. Joshi provides an introduction to the collection. Each story explores the dark territories of human psychology, where reason battles madness and death lurks behind ordinary facades.
Genres: literary-fiction, 20th-century, horror, detective, 19th-century, gothic
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: dark-academia, unreliable-narrator
Period: 19th Century, 20th Century
211 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Content warnings: death, gore, murder, violence