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The undisputed master of terror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe was a unique inventor in fiction.

In The Fall of the House of Ushet” and “The Black Cat’ he wrote the first blod ben tales of terror, with The Murders in the Row Morgue and hu fictional detective M. Dupin he invented the detective story, and tales such as MS. Found in a Bottle and ‘Von Kempelen and Ha Discovery’ pioneered modem science-fiction

As readers will discover. Poe possessed an unrivalled capacity to create atmosphere and suspense, and to probe the dark depths of the human pyche. All the stories in thus volume push back the boundaries, making the mprobable possible, the familiar terrdying and strange.