Edgar Allan Poe invented detective fiction with these three mesmerising stories of a young eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin: 'The Murders in the Rue Morge', ' The Mystery of Marie Roget' and 'The P…
This collection brings together some of the best examples of late nineteenth - and early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinary people to whom something unexpected happens. Others…
Edgar Allan Poe, 'the father of the detective story' and a master of horror, is one of the greatest American short story writers. In these stories we meet people struggling with fear, revenge, ment…
Having been condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, the narrator descends into a kind of hell. Dizzy with weakness and fainting with fear, he experiences such torments that death itself woul…