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Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Van Leer
Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of horror and detective fiction.
As well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Using the Gothic to question the integrity of human existence, Poe is less interested in moral retribution than in exposing the misconceptions that make things seem 'mysterious' in the first place. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new critical edition selects twenty-four tales and places the most popular — 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Masque of the Red Death', 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', and 'The Purloined Letter ' — alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires.
• INTRODUCTION • TEXTUAL NOTE • BIBLIOGRAPHY • CHRONOLOGY • EXPLANATORY NOTES
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short stories, aristocracy, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, self-destructive behavior, metaphors, coroners, hanging, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author)People
William Wilson, Von Kempelen, Lieutenant Maury, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Eleonora, Ermengarde, Mr. Ellison, Mrs. Ellison, Seabright Ellison, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Egaeus, Berenice, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de CrébillonPlaces
Paris, Valley of the Many-Colored Grass, Heaven, Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, RomeTimes
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1998, Oxford University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxiii]-xxv).
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Berenice
Morella
Ligeia
The Man that was Used Up
Fall of the House of Usher
William Wilson
The Man of the Crowd
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Eleonora
Masque of the Red Death
Pit and the Pendulum
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Tell-tale Heart
The Gold-Bug
Black Cat
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
Purloined Letter
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Imp of the Perverse
Cask of Amontillado
Domain of Arnheim
Hop-Frog
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
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