Complete Works
All Novels and Short StoriesBy Edgar Allan Poe
Length45h 58m
About this audiobook
Before Sherlock Holmes, there was the armchair logician who never fired a shot. Before the psychological thriller, there was the murderer who hears his victim’s heart beating from beneath the floorboards. Before every unreliable narrator who ever lied to us, there was the gentleman who insisted—too calmly—that he was not mad.
Edgar Allan Poe did not merely write stories, he performed experiments. And in his tales of terror, he turned the Gothic inward. The true abyss is not the grave, it is the space between one thought and the next. His protagonists do not flee from ghosts; they are trapped inside minds that have turned against themselves.
Poe was the first writer to approach the short story as a machine designed to produce a single effect —every sentence, every syllable, calibrated to deliver one overwhelming impression before the reader could look away. The laboratory he built proved inexhaustible. From the symbolists of Paris to the noir corridors of Hollywood, from cosmic horror to the forensic procedural, the DNA of modern genre fiction is written in his hand.
These Complete Works give us a new way of seeing—the conviction that the darkest alleys of the city and the darkest corridors of the mind are illuminated by the same cold, brilliant light.
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Table of contents
1EDGAR ALLAN POE AN APPRECIATION
26THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
2EDGAR ALLAN POE
27THE PREMATURE BURIAL
3DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE
28THE DOMAIN OF ARNHEIM
4THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL (*1)
29LANDOR’S COTTAGE
5 THE GOLD-BUG
30WILLIAM WILSON
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6FOUR BEASTS IN ONE—THE HOMO-CAMELEOPARD
31THE TELL-TALE HEART.
7THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
32BERENICE
8THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET.(*1)
33ELEONORA
9THE BALLOON-HOAX
34NOTES TO THESE TALES
10MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE
35NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM
11THE OVAL PORTRAIT
36CHAPTER 1
12THE PURLOINED LETTER
37CHAPTER 2
13THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE
38CHAPTER 3
14A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM.
39CHAPTER 4
15VON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY
40CHAPTER 5
16MESMERIC REVELATION
41CHAPTER 6
17THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR
42CHAPTER 7
18THE BLACK CAT.
43CHAPTER 8
19THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
44CHAPTER 9
20SILENCE—A FABLE
45CHAPTER 10
21THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH.
46CHAPTER 11
22THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO.
47CHAPTER 12
23THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE
48CHAPTER 13
24THE ISLAND OF THE FAY
49CHAPTER 14
25THE ASSIGNATION
50CHAPTER 15
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