Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, and in England, Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. The quartet of musketeers come out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But...

This collection of Poe's finest stories comprises all the terrifying and bewildering tales that typify his work. All of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories appear alongside the Gothic horror The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Premature Burial, and what is perhaps his most enduring work The Fall of the House of Usher. Never was there an illustrator whose work was more perfectly suited to the work of Poe - Rackham's ethereal blend of the gruesome...

Contains about 60 of the author's short stories and tales.

The classic poems and spine-tingling stories of a Gothic American master collected in one volume. Of all the American masters, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation, as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe is the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill. Born in Boston in 1809, and dead at the age of 40, Poe wrote across several...

Black cat -- Fall of the House of Usher -- Masque of the red death -- Facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- Premature burial -- Ms found in a bottle -- Tale of the ragged mountains -- Sphinx -- Murders in the Rue Morgue -- Tell-tale heart -- Gold-bug -- System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether -- Man that was used up -- Balloon-hoax -- Descent into the Maelstrom -- Purloined letter -- Pit and the pendulum -- Cask of Amontillado.