Classic tales of mystery, terror, imagination, and suspense from the celebrated master of the macabre. This 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, Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. With an Introduction by Stephen Marlowe and an Afterword by Regina Marler