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First published in a 1842 edition of Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, The Masque of the Red Death tells the story of Prince Prospero as he tries to avoid a plague by confining himself and his nobles to a masquerade in an abbey. Often considered a gothic allegory, the story reflects on not only life and death but also the illusion of control.
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It takes much deception, betrayal, and madness to commit a murder. Even more madness to cover up that murder. In this haunting tale we follow the detailed planning involved to rid the world of an Evil Eye. Will the beating of the tell-tale heart reveal the truth to the police? Find out in this striking graphic novel adaptation.
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El pozo y el péndulo es un cuento de Edgar Allan Poe que se publicó en 1842.
Es considerado uno de los relatos más famosos del Maestro Poe, y uno de los más espeluznantes dentro de la literatura de terror, pues transmite el abandono, la desorientación, el desconcierto y la desesperanza de una persona que sabe que va a morir.
El nombre del relato proviene de un pozo situado dentro de la celda en la que se encuentra el protagonista, dónde también...
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Nineteenth-century American poet, critic, and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe is most famous for his cultivation of the macabre in fiction. Four narrators collaborate here on a collection of some of Poe's best known stories, including “The Tell Tale Heart,” “Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” “Hop Frog,” “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “Masque of the Red Death,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “Fall of the House of Usher,”...
5) The Raven
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Perhaps Poe's most famous work, The Raven was first published in 1845 in the New York Evening Mirror. Known for its tight rhymes, rhythm, and the repetitive response given by the eponymous raven-Nevermore-the poem focuses on that raven and a forlorn man who is distraught over his lost lover, Lenore.
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First published in a 1841 edition of Graham's Magazine, The Murders in the Rue Morgue is often cited as the first modern detective story. The first of three stories to center around C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's fictional detective, The Murders in the Rue Morgue involves Dupin's investigation of two women's murders. Establishing many of the tropes that would later become common to detective fiction, the story begins with an explanation of Dupin's theory...
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First published in a 1843 edition of The Saturday Evening Post, The Black Cat tells the story of a man and his increasingly antagonistic relationship with his cat. Akin to The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat investigates the psychological effects of guilt as well as the potentially destructive and violent consequences of alcoholism.
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First published in a 1846 edition of Godey's Lady's Book, The Cask of Amontillado is widely considered to be one of the most perfect short stories ever written. Told by the unreliable narrator Montresor-a man who sought vengeance against his acquaintance for an insult that the reader is not privy to-the story details how Montresor accomplished his revenge.
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The story opens with the narrator recounting a summer sea voyage from aboard the ship 'Independence'. The narrator learns that his old college friend Cornelius Wyatt is aboard with his wife and two sisters, though he has reserved three state-rooms. After conjecturing the extra room was for a servant or extra baggage, he learns his friend has brought on board an oblong pine box: "It was about six feet in length by two and a half in breadth." The narrator...
10) El gato negro
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El gato negro es uno de lo cuentos siniestros más conocidos de Edgar Allan Poe, así como uno de sus grandes relatos psicológicos. La combinación de ambos elementos, horror y psicología, parece conducir directamente a la expresión terror psicológico, que hoy sabemos inspirada en la singularidad artística de este autor y que podría definirse como aquella fórmula literaria que aspira a conjugar en una síntesis superior miedo, enajenación...
11) La carta robada
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Audiolibro narrado en castellano. La Carta Robada. Auguste Dupin junto a su amigo el narrador, protagonizan este relato corto con el objetivo de resolver el caso de una carta robada en las cámaras reales para ser utilizada con fines chantajistas y políticos. Dupin hace gala de su intelecto y capacidad deductiva. ¿ Aportará las claves para resolver el misterio?
«Cree solo en la mitad de lo que veas y en nada de lo que escuches»
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Manuscrito hallado en una botella (MS. Found in a Bottle en inglés), también traducido como "Manuscrito encontrado en una botella", es un cuento de terror del escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe publicado por primera vez en el periódico Baltimore Saturday Visiter el 19 de octubre de 1833. El autor recibió por él un premio literario dotado con 50 dólares.
Un joven desarraigado pero de esmerada educación se embarca en un buque de carga en...
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MS. Found In A Bottle is an adventure short story by Edgar Allan Poe that first appeared in the May 1833 edition of Baltimore Saturday Visiter. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever southward, he writes an "MS.", or manuscript, telling of his adventures which he casts into the sea. Some critics believe the story was meant...
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Edgar Allan Poe is the undisputed originator of the detective story. His brilliant, imaginative sleuth C. Auguste Dupin set the stage for eccentric, logic wielding investigators like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. This audio collection of Poe's three Dupin stories also includes one non-Dupin detective tale, "Thou Art the Man." It features celebrity narrator Bronson Pinchot. The story titles are: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of...
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Un joven caballero es invitado al viejo caserón de un amigo de la infancia, Roderick Usher, artista enfermizo y excéntrico que vive completamente recluido en compañía de su hermana, Lady Madeline, también delicada de salud. Usher vive preso de una enfermedad indefinible, lo que hace a todos temer por su vida. La que acaba muriendo es su hermana. Sus restos mortales son depositados en una cripta, pero no tardan en producirse terribles acontecimientos...
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In selecting the tales that form this volume, the foremost place has been allotted to two romances of Death, "The Fall of the House of Usher" and " Ligeia." The latter was considered by Poe himself the finest of all his tales, and in a well-known letter to Lowell he places close beside it 'The Fall of the House of Usher." In both his singular genius finds full expression. They are followed by two old-world romances, laid in Rome and Venice, rich in...
17) Ligeia
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Ligeia es una obra del escritor Allan Poe publicada en 1838, donde narra el amor de un hombre por su bellísima esposa, Ligeia. Descubre esta fascinante historia de amor, agonía, muerte y belleza del famoso autor.
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The name Edgar Allan Poe conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, and of love that extends beyond the grave. The richness of Poe's writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death.Poe's stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings. Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe's characters are instantly recognizable-even...
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Hay teorías tan excéntricas que rayan en la locura. ¿Dónde termina la excentricidad y dónde empieza la demencia? En esta sátira inolvidable sobre expertos y locos, Edgar Allan Poe lo hará reír a carcajadas.
"Bibliotecarios [de los Estados Unidos] observan que los relatos de Edgar Allan Poe producidos por Nueva Onda son populares".
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Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most important and influential American writers of the 19th century. He was the first author to try to make a professional living as a writer. Much of Poe's work was inspired by the events that happened around him. His poetry alone would ensure his spot in the literary canon. Poe's notable verses range from the early masterpiece "To Helen" to the dark, mysterious "Ulalume." From "The Raven," which made him world-famous...
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