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Después de sorprendernos con los cuatro títulos de la Saga Casasola y con los cuentos que conforman la Trilogía del Terror, Bernardo Esquinca nos entrega una novela que expande los límites y paisajes de su escritura. En un ejercicio audaz que es a la vez homenaje y acercamiento, Edgar Allan Poe, el padre del relato policiaco y del cuento de terror norteamericanos, se muestra en estas páginas como un ser humano, todavía lejos de la grandeza que lo consagraría y del abismo que lo consumiría.

The St. Charles Players present multi-cast dramatizations of some of Edgar Allan Poe's greatest works, including The Black Cat, The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether, The Purloined Letter, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

Poe’s characters often take turns for the worse, and this is the literal case in this shipwreck story by the author. Aboard a ship taking off from Indonesia, the narrator’s ship and crew is struck by a storm that kills everyone but the narrator and one other crewmember. As the ship sales on under the enchantment of the storm, it collides with another seemingly enchanted object - a large black galleon crewed by blind men. The narrator keeps a ship’s log while aboard and is forced to abandon it over the side of the ship with the hopes of someone reading it someday.

Una selección de los famosos relatos de misterio y de terror del gran maestro del género. Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, 1809 - Baltimore, 1849), reconocido como el maestro del relato corto, dejó un legado literario que se ha convertido en un punto de referencia constante para todas las artes. Su huella en la literatura fantástica y de terror, así como la literatura detectivesca es incuestionable e inspiró de manera decisiva a escritores de la talla de Melville, Baudelaire, Maupassant, Cortázar o Nabokov.

This is a story from the Fall of the House of Usher collection. The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, with its dungeon of death, and the overhanging gloom on the House of Usher demonstrate unforgettably the unique imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. Unerringly, he touches upon some of our greatest nightmares: Premature burial, ghostly transformation, words from beyond the grave. Written in the 1840s, they have retained their power to shock and frighten even now.

Sumérgete en el oscuro y fascinante mundo de "Cuentos Clásicos del Norte, Primera Serie" de Edgar Allan Poe. Estos relatos te transportarán a un universo lleno de misterio, terror y suspense. Con su prosa magistral, Poe te sumergirá en historias inquietantes y perturbadoras que exploran las profundidades de la mente humana. Cada cuento está cuidadosamente tejido, envolviéndote en atmósferas inquietantes y revelando giros inesperados.

The poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first published on January 29, 1845, in the New York Evening Mirror. The poet read it publicly for the first time in a literary salon hosted by his friend Anne Lynch Botta .The work is noteworthy for its distinct, rhythmic, melodic sound, linguistic stylization, and a sense of horror. It tells of a mysterious visit that a speaking raven makes to a man in despair after the loss of his beloved, portraying the slow process of the unfortunate man descending into madness.

Chevalier Auguste Dupin, normalmente conocido como C. Auguste Dupin, es un detective de ficción creado por Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin hizo su primera aparición en ”Los crímenes de la calle Morgue” (1841) de Poe, considerado el primer relato policial. Vuelve a aparecer en “El misterio de Marie Rogêt” (1842) y en “La carta robada” (1844).

A fourth floor room, a door locked with the key inside, no way in, no way out. Edgar Allan Poe is the true grandfather of the murder mystery. Decades before Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, Poe gave us C. Auguste Dupin, a man able to solve mysteries through observation and deduction.

This unique collection of lesser-known tales and poems from a master of the macabre demonstrates Poe's literary range. From the title story, which examines the behavior of an old man walking through Baltimore, to the beautiful poetry in "The Sleeper" and "Annabel Lee," these often hard-to-find works are superbly narrated by Ralph Cosham. Also included in the collection is "MS. Found in a Bottle" (one of Poe's first major works), the account of a man who boards the Flying Dutchman; "Eleonora," a tale of a vow of love; "The Oval Portrait," in which a young artist literally captures the life force of his new bride; "Berenice," about a premature burial - with a particularly unnerving effect; "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," about a macabre experiment in hypnotism; and "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" and "The Man That Was Used Up," 2 stories that demonstrate Poe's humor.

A vile affliction, the Red Death, a disease that kills rapidly with a seizure and bleeding from the pores. Torturing and scarring the land. But Prince Prospero is neither affected nor intimidated. More and more of his subjects die by the day. But still he fears not. He does however gather his friends and acquaintances, locking himself and his retinue away in a fortified abbey built with seclusion in mind. Time progresses and the Red Death is now at it's height. The Prince decides to host a masked ball to ease everyone's fears.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

Inventore del racconto poliziesco e del thriller psicologico, nella sua sterminata produzione Edgar Allan Poe ha affrontato atmosfere torbide e terrificanti, trame allucinanti e bizzarre, intrecci misteriosi decifrabili solo con l’utilizzo di una lucida logica, mondi inquietanti e anche grotteschi, riuscendo sempre a penetrare a fondo nell’anima delle situazioni fino alle più estreme conseguenze.

Gatto nero di Edgar Allan Poe è un capolavoro del terrore psicologico che ti terrà sveglio di notte. Entra nel mondo oscuro e tormentato del protagonista, dove un misterioso gatto nero diventa il simbolo della sua rovina. Questo racconto intenso e avvincente esplora il lato più oscuro della mente umana, portandoti in un viaggio inquietante attraverso la colpa, la follia e il soprannaturale. Se ami il brivido di emozioni forti e la suspense psicologica, Gatto nero è una lettura imperdibile che ti terrà incollato alle pagine.

This is a story from the "Great Ghost Stories" collection.

El narrador, Egaeus, se prepara para casarse con su prima, Berenice. Egaeus sufre extraños ataques de ensimismamiento durante los cuales parece aislarse por completo del mundo exterior. Berenice empieza a deteriorarse debido a una enfermedad desconocida, hasta que la única parte de su cuerpo que parece permanecer viva son sus bonitos dientes, con los cuales Egaeus empieza a obsesionarse. Berenice muere finalmente y él entra en uno de sus trances. Un criado lo interrumpe informándole de que la tumba de Berenice ha sido profanada.

Poe brings the reality of life and death to the forefront as he weaves a story within a story. When the narrator runs into an old man, the man begins to tell the tale of how he aged so rapidly. Only a day before, he was young - but lost his shipmates into a vicious maelstrom and the powers of the sea. After the initial terror of the event has subsided, he is able to examine the beauty and the power of the forces that can both provide life and take it away without note.

Inspired by an account in the Broadway Journal of a surgeon putting a patient into a magnetic sleep, "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a suspenseful tale concerning the forestallment of death by hypnosis. Originally published without a clear indication of its fictionality, the story was assumed to be a true account by some of its original readers.

The anonymous narrator is suffering from a strange hypersensitivity to everything around him. He lives with an old man who has a clouded bluish eye, an abnormality that fascinates and disturbs him. Resolving to kill the man and dispose of his body, he soon realizes in horror, however, his innocent victim may never let him forget what he has done.

First published in an 1839 edition of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, "The Fall of the House of Usher" is the story of the declining physical and psychological health of the residents of the House of Usher - and the way in which the house itself reflects that. Gothic in theme and style, the story is an exemplar of Poe's philosophy of composition, which dictates that literary works should be short and methodological and have a unity of effect wherein all the elements of the story are related and relevant.