Essential Tales and Poems

Featured in these pages are Edgar Allan Poe’s best-loved and most-feared literary creations: the clever C. August Dupin, precursor to Sherlock Holmes; the terrifying ghouls of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque; as well as the tragic sensibilities of The Raven and Other Poems. This is an essential treasury for Poe novices and experts alike.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was a self-destructive but brilliant writer whose supernatural works formatively shaped the horror and speculative genres. He was also one of the first writers of detective fiction as well as a formidable literary critic.