The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

<b>Classic tales of mystery, terror, and suspense, including <i>The Fall of the House of Usher</i>—the inspiration for the Netflix series from Mike Flanagan, the director of <i>The Haunting of Hill House</i> and <i>Midnight Mass</i>!</b><br><br>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, <i>Narrative of A. Gordon Pym</i>.<br>  <br> <b>With an Introduction by Stephen Marlowe </b><br> <b>and an Afterword by Regina Marler</b>