A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (Legend Classics)

Edgar Allan Poe

Dec 2021 · Legend Press

About this ebook

Part of the Legend Classics series

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

Behold: a selection of short stories from the master of the macabre, Edgar Allen Poe.

From the brilliant mind of a man responsible for popularising the genres of detective fiction and science fiction come these unforgettable tales of death, decay and the dark depths of human emotion. They will, almost inevitably, crawl under your skin and into your brain.

The Legend Classics series:
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Importance of Being Earnest
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Metamorphosis
The Railway Children
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Frankenstein
Wuthering Heights
Three Men in a Boat
The Time Machine
Little Women
Anne of Green Gables
The Jungle Book
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Dracula
A Study in Scarlet
Leaves of Grass
The Secret Garden
The War of the Worlds
A Christmas Carol
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Heart of Darkness
The Scarlet Letter
This Side of Paradise
Oliver Twist
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Treasure Island
The Turn of the Screw
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Emma
The Trial
A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Grimm Fairy Tales
The Awakening
Mrs Dalloway
Gulliver’s Travels
The Castle of Otranto
Silas Marner
Hard Times

About the author

Edgar Allan Poe is considered to have been a vital component of Romanticism, the detective genre, the science fiction genre, and the existence of the short story itself. So influential was his work, there now exists the Edgar Award: for distinguished work in the mystery genre.