The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Selected Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Selected Stories by Edgar Allan PoeVINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine tingling, mind altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of

and the sources that inspired his work: from myth

the nature of obsession and obsession with nature

Her three-step methodology

so much of its content remains relevant to understanding contemporary preoccupations and controversies' Diarmaid Ferriter

But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband

the 16th of June 1904

" - Gerard Beirne

Wharton was recreating an environment she knew intimately

she holds out against his demands and threats of abduction and rape

What if there was something we could do about it

This is a story of concrete towers and blank eyed windows

this is the most important book to have emerged from South Korea since Han Kang's The Vegetarian