About the Collection

This is a collection of the 7 best short stories of one of the most read horror, detective, and science fiction authors ever to have been published, Edgar Allan Poe. This selection, specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Cask of Amontillado

The Masque of the Red Death

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Black Cat

Influence and Legacy

Edgar Allan Poe has influenced many great writers and creative minds like Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Machen, H.P. Lovecraft, Jules Verne, Clark Ashton Smith, Charles Baudelaire, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, among many others.