'The agony of my soul found vent in one loud. long, and final scream of despair'

Edgar Allan Poe is not only the finest, most terrifying writer of tales of Gothic horror to have lived, he also wrote extraordinary poems and, with 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', invented the detective story in this collection, Poe's genius is given its full breadth. In The Pit and the Pendulum and other stories of horror including terrifying classics like "The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Black Cat' - Poe writes of the torments of ingenious, malevolent persecutors and of a mind's own sickening madness, while in the mournful 'The Raven and other poems, his writing is beautiful, elegiac and filled with dread.