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Released to coincide with the two-hundredth anniversary of the author’s birth in January 1809, this selection of well-loved chilling tales from the master of the supernatural is a perfect Christmas gift. The short stories include The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This release also features additional poetry by Poe and a new biography especially written for Naxos AudioBooks by Roy McMillan.
Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Residing in Paris during the spring…
We were strolling one night…
Not long after this…
The next day's paper…
Four of the above named witnesses…
This is one of those miserable thoroughfares…
'I am now awaiting,' continued he…
'Let us now transport ourselves…'
'The next question…'
At these words…
I felt a creeping of the flesh…
The front door of the house…
What he stated was, in substance, this…
Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum (Unabridged)
The Pit and the Pendulum
So far I had not opened my eyes…
In the confusion attending my fall…
I could no longer doubt the doom…
Scarcely had I dropped my head…
Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart (Unabridged)
The Tell-Tale Heart
I kept quite still and said nothing…
If still you think me mad…
Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher (Unabridged)
The Fall of the House of Usher
Shaking off from my spirit…
In the manner of my friend…
I shall ever bear about me…
I well remember…
And now some days…
The impetuous fury…
Oppressed, as I certainly was…
Edgar Allan Poe: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (Unabridged)
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
When they had gone…
I now feel that I have reached…
From this period…
Edgar Allan Poe: The Premature Burial (Unabridged)
The Premature Burial
In the year 1810…
The mention of the galvanic battery…
For several years…
From the innumerable images…
They arrived an epoch…
And now, amid all my infinite…
Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado (Unabridged)
The Cask of Amontillado
There were no attendants…
At the most remote end…
Edgar Allan Poe: The Masque of the Red Death (Unabridged)
The Masque of the Red Death
But in spite of these things…
When the eyes of Prince Prospero…
Edgar Allan Poe: Tamerlane (Unabridged)
Tamerlane
Edgar Allan Poe: Dreams (Unabridged)
Dreams
Edgar Allan Poe: Spirits of the dead (Unabridged)
Spirits of the dead
Edgar Allan Poe: A dream (Unabridged)
A dream
Edgar Allan Poe: The Lake
The Lake
Edgar Allan Poe: The bowers whereat, in dreams I see…
The bowers whereat, in dreams I see…
Edgar Allan Poe: Fairy-Land (Unabridged)
Fairy-Land
Edgar Allan Poe: To Helen (Unabridged)
To Helen
Edgar Allan Poe: Israfel (Unabridged)
Israfel
Edgar Allan Poe: Lenore (Unabridged)
Lenore
Edgar Allan Poe: Sonnets: To Zante
Sonnet: To Zante
Edgar Allan Poe: Sonnet: The Haunted Palace
Sonnet: The Haunted Palace
Edgar Allan Poe: Sonnet: Silence (Unabridged)
Sonnet: Silence
Edgar Allan Poe: The conqueror worm (Unabridged)
The conqueror worm
Edgar Allan Poe: Dreamland (Unabridged)
Dreamland
Edgar Allan Poe: Eulalie (Unabridged)
Eulalie
Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven (Unabridged)
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe: Not long ago, the writer of these lines… (Unabridged)
Not long ago, the writer of these lines…
Edgar Allan Poe: Ulalume (Unabridged)
Ulalume
Edgar Allan Poe: The Bells (Unabridged)
The Bells
Edgar Allan Poe: A dream within a dream (Unabridged)
A dream within a dream
Edgar Allan Poe: For Annie (Unabridged)
For Annie
Edgar Allan Poe: To my mother (Unabridged)
To my mother
Edgar Allan Poe: Annabel Lee (Unabridged)
Annabel Lee
Roy McMillan: Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography (Unabridged)
Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography
Edgar Poe was born on 19 January 1809…
Edgar Poe was a good student…
By the end of 1828…
The years between 1831 and 1835…
Poe is hardly known for his journalism…
The family moved to New York…
Once Virginia had started to display…
Whatever the truth…
This tangle of emotional attachments…
Later, while still in what can only…
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“Chancer provides a simple yet engaging reading of Poe’s biography. Suitably macabre mood music marks transitions between the selections.”