TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION (COLLINS CLASSICS)

About the book

To an anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden slave.

Including Poe’s most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories,

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

is the ultimate collection of the infamous author s macabre works. Cfocusing on the internal conffict of individuak, the power of the dead over the living and psychological axplorations of darker human emotion, the collection features some of his most popular tales. ‘The Gold-Bug’ is the only story that was significant within his lifetime, whereas ‘The Black Cat’, ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ and ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ became more widely read after his death.