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Edgar Allan Poe wrote “The Masque of the Red Death” nearly 180 years ago, yet its narrative and characters continue to mystify and captivate. The short story is driven by Prince Prospero’s attempt to evade the “Red Death”, a fatal plague infecting his kingdom, by hiding in his abbey, where he indulges in pleasures and delights with other nobles. He soon finds out that no one can escape their end. Steven Archer has recast the characters of “The Masque” and illuminated the narrative in a novel and perhaps more visceral light.

A prisoner awakens in complete darkness, unable to see where he is or understand what has happened to him. He knows only that he has been condemned—and that whatever waits inside his cell may be designed to destroy both his body and his mind. As he explores the pitch-black chamber, he...

En esta colección, se encuentran las obras más icónicas de Edgar Allan Poe, aquellas que han fascinado y perturbado a los lectores a lo largo del tiempo.

Arthur Gordon Pym de Nantucket narra se embarca clandestinamente en el barco ballenero Grampus, en un viaje a los Mares del Sur en 1827. El relato describe los detalles de un motín y las atroces carnicerías que sufrirán sus tripulantes. Su naufragio y los horribles sufrimientos por el hambre; su rescate por la goleta británica Jane Guy; el breve crucero de esta última por el océano Antártico, su captura y la matanza de la tripulación en un archipiélago del paralelo 84 de latitud sur.

La verità sul caso di Mister Valdemar di Edgar Allan Poe è un viaggio nell'incubo dell'immortalità, che ti terrà inchiodato alla sedia. Entra nel macabro mondo di mesmerismo e sperimentazione medica, dove un uomo morente è trascinato in uno stato sospeso tra vita e morte. Questo racconto straordinario sfida i confini tra scienza e soprannaturale, mentre il protagonista lotta per sfuggire all'eternità in un corpo in decomposizione. Se sei pronto per un'esperienza letteraria intensa, La verità sul caso di Mister Valdemar ti svelerà gli orrori nascosti dell'immortalità.

In The Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allan Poe presents a haunting tale of terror, isolation, and inevitable doom. Set in a luxurious abbey, Prince Prospero and his wealthy guests attempt to escape a deadly plague known as the Red Death by locking themselves away in decadent seclusion. However, as the clock strikes midnight during a grand masquerade ball, a mysterious, masked figure enters the room, bringing with it a chilling reminder that death is inescapable.

"La Caída de la Casa Usher," una de las obras maestras más inquietantes del célebre Edgar Allan Poe. Este relato, con su atmósfera densa y su narrativa cautivadora, nos transporta a una mansión sombría y desolada, hogar de la enigmática familia Usher.

William Wilson es un relato corto de Edgar Allan Poe. Su ambientación está inspirada en los años de formación de Poe fuera de Londres. El cuento sigue el tema del "doble". Fue publicado por vez primera por la revista Burton's Gentleman's Magazine en octubre de 1839, y más tarde apareció en la colección de 1840 Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.

Cuando la cordura y la supervivencia penden de un hilo en los rincones más tenebrosos del siglo XIX, cuatro hombres enfrentados a celdas de tortura, monarcas crueles, presagios espectrales y pactos diabólicos deben usar su ingenio y coraje para no ser consumidos por el terror absoluto. Esta...

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by writer Edgar Allan Poe which is noted for its musical rhythm and supernatural ambiance. It deals with a raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, chronicling the poet's descent into madness. The poem makes use of classical, folk, mythological, and religious references.

"La musique," says Marmontel, with the same odd confusion of thought and language which leads him to give his very equivocal narratives the title of "Contes Moraux" — "la musique est le seul des talens qui jouissent de lui même; tous les autres veulent des temoins." He here confounds the pleasure derivable from sweet sounds with the capacity for creating them.

The American Classics Collection: Volume II is a century-spanning collection of 15 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Adam Sims; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, Katherine Fenton; and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Herman Melville; Upton Sinclair; Mark Twain; Walt Whitman; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Thornton Wilder; Edith Wharton; Jack London; amongst a host of others.

The Ultimate Essays Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 30 classic essays analysing everything from war to love, journalism to race, travel to nature, and much more, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are essays by some of the greatest writers of all time, including George Orwell; Thomas Paine; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Henry David Thoreau; Virigina Woolf; Sigmund Freud; Zorea Neale Huston; Langston Hughes; Jack London, and more.

È quasi impossibile sfuggire vivi all'Inquisizione spagnola. Tuttavia, il narratore senza nome di Edgar Allan Poe, dopo aver subito innumerevoli torture sul corpo e sull'anima per mano dei suoi aguzzini, vede finalmente la luce in fondo al tunnel della sua sanità mentale. Nonostante la mancanza di elementi soprannaturali, "La fossa e il pendolo" (1842) ha goduto e influenzato diversi notevoli adattamenti cinematografici.

Der namenlose Ich-Erzähler hebt mit einer der für Poe typischen umfangreichen Vorreden an: „Von meiner Heimat und meiner Familie weiß ich wenig zu sagen. Schlimme Erfahrungen und die Länge der Jahre haben mich aus der einen vertrieben, der anderen entfremdet. Ererbter Reichtum verschaffte mir eine ungewöhnliche Bildung, und meine nachdenkliche Sinnesart setzte mich in den Stand, die Schätze des Wissens, die mir durch mein Studium von Jugend auf erworben hatte, in methodische Ordnung zu bringen.“

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First published in January 1845, the poem is noted for its musicality, stylised language and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow descent into madness. The lover, often identified as a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further distress the protagonist with its constant repetition of the word nevermore. The poem makes use of folk, mythological, religious and classical references.

"Metzengerstein: A Tale in Imitation of the German" is a short story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, his first to see print. It was first published in the pages of Philadelphia's Saturday Courier magazine, in 1832. The story follows the young Frederick, the last of the Metzengerstein family, who carries on a long-standing feud with the Berlifitzing family. Suspected of causing a fire that kills the Berlifitzing family patriarch, Frederick becomes intrigued with a previously unnoticed and untamed horse.

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by H.P. Lovecraft; Edgar Allan Poe; M.R. James; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Le Fanu; Bram Stoker; Mary Shelley; Robert Louis Stevenson; and Henry James.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the dark world of Edgar Allan Poe, where crime and madness intertwine in a terrifying web, a mysterious black cat appears. This extraordinary creature becomes a symbol of evil and curse, and its presence in the protagonist’s life leads to shocking...