![]() ![]() ![]() Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination feature With an afterword by Jonty Claypole.ĭesigned to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Collectively, these tales represent the best of Edgar Allan Poe's prose work before his premature death in 1849. ![]() Illustrated with 8 full-color plates and 24 full-page drawings filled with brooding eroticism. It combines some of his most popular stories including 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' with lesser-known gems. ![]() 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are key works in the horror canon, while in the 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' we find the origins of modern detective fiction. This gorgeous anthology features 29 of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the fantastic and the macabre. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly unsolvable mysteries. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. ![]()
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