The ​Gold-bug and Other Tales

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Recognized ​today as the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) revealed his genius in tales of death, terror, evil and perversity. Highly skilled in achieving a calculated psychological effect, Poe created chilling fictional nightmares permeated by mysterious forces, grotesque creatures and improbable hallucinations

Poe’s immense powers as a storyteller are at their peak in this anthology containing nine of his best-known short stories. Among them are „The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” a gripping 19th-century detective story that provided a model for future mystery writers; „The Fall of the House of Usher” and „The Masque of the Red Death,” pervaded with eerie thoughts, impulses and fears; „The Tell-Tale Heart” and „The Cask of Amontillado,” masterpieces of wickedness and crime; „The Pit and the Pendulum,” with its agonizing specter of imminent and horrifying death; and „The Gold-Bug,” a fascinating detective story that combines romance and adventure in an absorbing tale of buried treasure

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