Edgar Allan Poe was a master of the tale of psychological horror and the author of what is considered the first modern detective story. Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Stories features more than twenty of Poe’s groundbreaking tales of the macabre, among them “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” It also includes his trilogy of stories featuring detective C. Auguste Dupin: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rôget,” and “The Purloiined Letter.”
 
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