Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe (Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS) - Hardcover

Poe, Edgar Allan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 185715522X ISBN 13: 9781857155228

Publisher: Childrens Classics, 2017

Synopsis

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and fantasy were his forte and in later life he responded to the dark stimulus of Poe's gothic tales with gleeful appreciation of their macabre and otherworldly qualities, claiming afterwards that he had quite succeeded in frightening himself! For lovers of the thrilling and chilling, young and old, Poe's sensational stories cannot fail to hit the spot. This collection contains the best of his prose works, including of course the well-known masterpieces 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (the ultimate haunted house story), 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (the very first detective story in fiction). First published in 1935 it has been redesigned, re-typeset and republished in a handsome edition which features all Rackham's original colour and black and white illustrations. A perfect gift - though not for the faint-hearted!

About this title

Book Description:

Republished in a form suitable for students and general readers alike.

From the Back Cover:

THESE STORIES HAVE BEEN RETOLD FOR TODAY'S READER, WITH ATMOSPHERIC ILLUSTRATIONS, AN INFORMATIVE INTRODUCTION AND USEFUL NOTES. THE EBONY CLOCK STRUCK MIDNIGHT AND THE WILDLY DRESSED REVELLERS FELL SILENT AS THEY NOTICED A MASKED STRANGER IN THEIR MIDST. TALL, GAUNT AND WEARING A SHROUD, HIS MASK AND HIS CLOTHES WERE SMEARED WITH BLOOD THE MASQUE OF THE READ DEATH IS JUST ONE OF THE CHILLING STORIES IN THIS LIVELY RETELLING FROM EDGAR ALLAN POE'S CLASSIC TALES OF TERROR. THE STORIES ARE GUARANTEED TO SEND SHIVERS OF FEAR DOWN THE SPINES OF MODERN READERS, AS MUCH AS THEY DID WHEN THEY WERE FIRST PUBLISHED OVER 150 YEARS AGO.

About this edition

• Publisher: Childrens Classics
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 185715522X
• ISBN 13: 9781857155228
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360