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Selected Short Stories and Poems: Edgar Allan Poe

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
SKU: 9789347098819

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From the cosmic terror of MS. Found in a Bottle and the bizarre aerial voyage of Hans Pfaall, to the chilling scientific limbo of M. Valdemar and the claustrophobic dread of The Premature Burial, Edgar Allan Poe probes the fragile boundary between life and death. In Ligeia, Morella, and Berenice, love becomes a fixation and identity refuses to die, while Eleonora offers a rare, dreamlike meditation on memory and loss. Interwoven with these tales are some of Poe’s most haunting poems. Annabel Lee and For Annie sing of love that survives death, suspended between grief and a strange sense of serenity. A Dream and Fairy-Land drift through fragile, otherworldly beauty, while The Haunted Palace transforms the mind itself into a crumbling Gothic ruin. This anthology brings together madness, death, obsession, and the perilous brilliance of the human mind. In these pages, Edgar Allan Poe’s most haunting and visionary tales weave a spellbinding descent into the depths of Gothic imagination.

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About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) stands at the dark crossroads of poetry and prose, where beauty and terror become inseparable. A pioneer of Gothic fiction and a master of the short story, he explored the fragile edges of the human mind—where reason falters and obsession takes hold. His works move between eerie precision and dreamlike intensity, shaping not only modern horror but also the foundations of detective fiction. Poems such as The Raven and Annabel Lee continue to echo with a strange, enduring melancholy. More than a writer of the macabre, Poe remains an architect of psychological depth, whose influence still shadows literature today.

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Binding

PB

Weight (grams)

250

Dimensions (inches)

7.75 x 5.25

No of Pages

284

Launch Year

2026

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