Stories for Halloween

The midnight hour approaches. You lie in bed and try to sleep, but there is the howling of the wind outside, the creak of a floorboard, the scream of a cat, the ticking clock...

Your heart beats, your skin crawls, and despite yourself you reach for this book and enter a world like a nightmare, haunted by dark fears, guilty secrets and the bloody consequences of rage, revenge and obsession.

You cannot tear yourself away, these tales will appall and yet enthrall you, for no mere mortal can resist the master of Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe.

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"For their supernatural grotesquerie and graveyard doom, [Poe's stories] foreshadow Stephen King and the 'southern gothic' of Truman Capote . . . . His work continues to enthral. His greatest tales radiate a dark humour and mockery that strike an oddly modern note." - Sunday Times

"If you love thrillers, you have to read these stories." - Observer --This text refers to the paperback edition. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was a poet, short-story writer, editor, critic, and one of the leaders of the American Romantics. --This text refers to the paperback edition. Read more Continue reading Read less