Selected stories

‘Poe’s work is dazzlingly original and has influenced an extraordinary range of writers from Baudelaire and Stevenson to Ycats, Wilde and Borges’ Observer Edgar Alian Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in 'The Murders in the Rué Morgue' he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hitchcock. This collection of some of his best short stories and novellas contains the well-known tales 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Tell Tale Heart' alongside hidden gems that both unsettle and enthral the reader.