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Product Description The tales gathered in this brief collection serve as evidence of Edgar Allan Poe’s genius for creating a dark, menacing, and mysterious mood. The stories included are “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “MS. in a Bottle,” “Ligeia,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Cask of Amontillado.” This compilation is an excellent introduction to the work of an American master of horror and should be a part of any Poe enthusiast’s library. About the Author Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, including The Masque of the Red Death and The Tell-Tale Heart. José Luis Piquero is a writer and a translator whose other translations include The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise. Carme Font is a translator and a professor of advanced English studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.