Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 1

Edgar Allan Poe is considered a master of the macabre, and his poems and short stories have influenced scores of writers. He helped invent the modern detective story, and his tales of terror are as chilling and powerful today as they have ever been. This volume includes three of this disturbing tales: "The Pit and the Pendulum," in which a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition faces a maddeningly slow and terrifying death; "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," the dark tale of a man whose demise is arrested when he is hypnotized at the moment of death; and "The Cask of Amontillado," a chilling story of revenge.