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CSA Word continues its ever-popular series of classic short stories, featuring writers such as Jerome K. Jerome, Louisa May Alcott, and Saki, read by such respected and revered readers as Derek Jacobi, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.
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Old Cornille's Secret by Alphonse Daudet, read by Stephen Fry
The Mouse by Saki, Read by Barbara Leigh-Hunt
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Edward Hardwicke
A Tale of Terror...
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A very unusual collection of intriguing tales all of which involve the 'paranormal' (beyond the scope of normal investigation or explanation). From the famous Dickens story The Signalman to the terrifying Poe story of The Black Cat which seeks to gain revenge for the death of one of her kittens, from two werewolf stories, Sredni Vashtar and The Werewolf to Edgar Wallace's gripping The Man of the Night. Wilkie Collins and M.R. James completes this...
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In selecting the tales that form this volume, the foremost place has been allotted to two romances of Death, "The Fall of the House of Usher" and " Ligeia." The latter was considered by Poe himself the finest of all his tales, and in a well-known letter to Lowell he places close beside it 'The Fall of the House of Usher." In both his singular genius finds full expression. They are followed by two old-world romances, laid in Rome and Venice, rich in...
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Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Edgar Allan Poe comenzó su carrera literaria como poeta, definió la poesía como "la rítmica creación de belleza". Toda su obra está marcada por una corriente de interioridad, una obsesión por los rincones más oscuros del subconsciente. Sus poemas; meditaciones sobre la muerte y la belleza de las mujeres, o sobre la muerte de mujeres hermosas. Una parte importante de sus poemas tienen una calidad técnica y...
6) Berenice
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The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead What a scary read. Egaeus, the narrator, talks about his relationship to his cousin Berenice. He lives the life of a scholar, prefers the night and is quite sickly. Berenice is the counterpart until she fall ill an decays day by day. There are plans of marriage. Egaeus is obsessed by her teeth. When the day of her interment...
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"Famous Modern Ghost Stories" by Edgar Allan Poe, Anatole France, Richard Le Gallienne, Algernon Blackwood, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Leonid Andreyev, Arthur Machen, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Fitz James O'Brien, Robert W. Chambers, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Olivia Howard Dunbar, William Fryer Harvey, Myla Jo Closser. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics...
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Surreal tales of suspense and imagination from an American master The Complete Short Stories is the ultimate collection of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the macabre-from the world-famous classics "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Cask of the Amontillado" to lesser-known masterpieces such as "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" and "The Devil in the Belfry." Fans of Poe's Gothic tales of horror will thrill to discover...
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Edgar Allen Poe is regarded as one of the greatest American writers and a pioneer of the horror genre, and this collection brings together some of his most celebrated tales. Themes of guilt, fear and revenge abound as the master of gothic horror transports readers to mysterious worlds, carries them on dangerous sea voyages, and investigates gruesome murders. Exploring the hidden depths of the human mind, these are tales full of thrills and intrigue.
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Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Conversación con una momia relato corto escrito por Edgar Allan Poe en un tono irónico, lleno de humor y crítica a la sociedad de finales del siglo XIX; sociedad convencida absolutamente de su propia superioridad.
Un grupo de investigadores se reúnen en torno a Allamistakeo una momia milenaria que fue miembro de la realeza egipcia y que al parecer fue embalsamado vivo algo propio de su linaje. Pronto se darán...
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Edgar Allan Poe:
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Cask of Amontillado
The Black Cat...
Henry James:
The Turn of the Screw
The Ghostly Rental...
H. P. Lovecraft:
The Dunwich Horror
The Shunned House...
Mary Shelley:
Frankenstein
The Mortal Immortal
The Evil Eye...
John William Polidori:
The Vampyre
Bram Stoker:
Dracula
The Jewel of Seven Stars
The Lair of the White Worm...
Algernon Blackwood:
The Willows
A Haunted Island
A Case of Eavesdropping
Ancient...
12) Horror
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Eine Sammlung von klassischen Horror- und Gespenstergeschichten, u. a. Das rote Haus von Friedrich Gertäcker, Das schwatzende Herz von Edgar Allan Poe, Das weiße Tier von Georg von der Gabelentz, Der Vampir von John William Polidori und achtzehn weitere Geschichten
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Audiolibro en castellano. Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, Estados Unidos, 1809 - Baltimore, id., 1849) Uno de los maestros del relato corto, revolucionó el cuento de terror y misterio, dotándolo de originales perspectivas psicológicas, coherencia de tono y atmósfera. El autor norteamericano supo insuflar vida a las regiones más oscuras del alma humana con una descripción minuciosa de ambientes y personajes en cuentos como los que se presentan en esta...
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The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant collection of some of his best-known stories: The Tell Tale Heart (a murder's haunting guilt), The Cask of Amontillado (a story of brilliant revenge), and The Fall of the House of Usher (an ancient house full of very dark secretes). Also included in this collection are The Mask of the Red Death (horrors of 'the Plague'), and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven (a lover's decline into madness)....
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In this graphic novel edition of The Fall of the House of Usher, Raul Garcia adapts his animated short, The Fall of the House of Usher, now streaming on Prime Video, and as a part of the animated feature Extraordinary Tales.
A traveler arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have...
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Edgar Allan Poe has the genius to manipulate language so well that he could engage my imagination and get me terrified even though little was 'done' in the sense of horrible actions described. My imagination, under the power of his creepy words, conjured the atmosphere and amplified the scariness all by itself. In this recording I've chosen some of his stories that did this so well and succeed in leaving lingering hair raising memories with me to...
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Mit scharfer Kombinationsgabe klärt Auguste Dupin einen rätselhaften Doppelmord in der Pariser Rue Morgue auf. Die 1841 veröffentlichte Kurzgeschichte ist Poes erste Detektivgeschichte und steht damit am Beginn der modernen Kriminalliteratur.
Die Ausgabe bietet den Text in der bewährten Übersetzung von Siegfried Schmitz. Mit Worterläuterungen, weiterführenden Literaturhinweisen und einer kurzen Nachbemerkung.
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Collected Works of American author Edgar Allan Poe include many poems, short stories, and one novel. His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing.
These works are generally considered part of the Dark romanticism movement, a literary reaction to Transcendentalism. Poe's writing reflects his literary theories: he disagreed with didacticism and...
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Collected Works of American author Edgar Allan Poe include many poems, short stories, and one novel. His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing.
These works are generally considered part of the Dark romanticism movement, a literary reaction to Transcendentalism. Poe's writing reflects his literary theories: he disagreed with didacticism and...
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No conto "Os Crimes da Rua Morgue" ("The Murders in the Rue Morgue"), Edgar Allan Poe conta a história do assassinato brutal de duas mulheres em Paris. Envolto em mistério, o crime tornou-se um grande desafio para a polícia, sendo desvendado apenas por Auguste Dupin, um homem tão enigmático quanto os assuntos dos quais se ocupa. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1841 na "Graham's Magazine", o texto inaugurou a linhagem do conto policial moderno,...