EDGAR ALLAN POE 19 Tales of Terror and Madness - Collectible Deluxe Special Gift Edition - Hardcover w/ Dustjacket -Best Seller Classic Book

ABOUT THE BOOK:Brand New/Unread condition!Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)Edgar Allan Poe wrote the passage above to describe the interior décor of Prince Prospero’s castle in “The Masque of the Red Death,” but he might just as easily have written it to describe the contents of this book. Its nineteen stories abound with characters—among them gibbering madmen, ominous doppelgängers, walled-up victims, and living-dead corpses—whose experiences are colored by the emotional responses Poe hoped to evoke.Consider, if you will, the following tales of terror and madness: The Fall of the House of Usher. The melancholy House of Usher was a crumbling pile whose sad decline was but a mirror of its family’s psychic state. The Masque of the Red Death. The pestilence came like a thief in the night, and Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. The Tell-Tale Heart. The murderer protested that he wasn’t mad. His gruesome crime proved otherwise. The Black Cat. Murd