bClassic tales of mystery, terror, imagination, and suspense from the celebrated master of the macabre.b pThis volume gathers together fourteen of Edgar Allan Poe's richest and most influential tales, including The Pit and the Pendulum, his reimagining of Inquisition tortures The Tell-Tale Heart, an exploration of a murderer's madness, which Stephen King called the best tale of inside evil ever written The Fall of the House of Usher, Poe's tour de force about a family doomed by a grim bloodline curse and his pioneering detective stories, The Purloined Letter and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, featuring a rational investigator with a poetic soul. Also included is Poe's only full-length novel, iNarrative of A. Gordon Pymi. p bWith an Introduction by Stephen Marlowe bbr band an Afterword by Regina Marlerb