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Uno de los rasgos característicos de Edgar Allan Poe en su tratamiento del terror consiste en la mezcla de elementos terroríficos en sí mismos con otros que producen el mismo efecto por vía indirecta. En los once relatos que integran este volumen ?entre los que se encuentran algunos de sus cuentos más memorables? puede advertirse todo el arco de posibilidades y modos que tuvo Poe de acercarse a la literatura de terror: espacios cerrados, amores fúnebres, mares tenebrosos, tumbas, cadáveres, sangre y esa típica opresión psicológica que procede de lo extraordinario, es decir, de lo que está más allá de los sentidos, de toda naturaleza, de cualquier lógica.

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Encuadernación: Rústica con solapasThe Walking Dead es mucho más que un cómic referencial, mucho más que una serie con decenas de millones de espectadores: es el ingreso definitivo de los zombis en nuestras vidas y nuestros hogares, en el espacio de las ficciones de consumo mayoritario. Pero cómo puede ser mayoritaria la imagen de un rebaño de muertos vivientes devorando vivo un caballo? Cómo es posible que una serie podrida de contenidos violentos, repulsivos e inquietantes triunfe en un espacio de producción y difusión mainstream, obteniendo una audiencia inmensa?Éste es un libro, por tanto, sobre una serie de televisión, sobre un cómic y, más ampliamente, sobre estas preguntas, sobre este extraño fenómeno que ha conseguido que los muertos vivientes, esta vez definitivamente, estén entre nosotros. Un libro sobre The Walking Dead, por supuesto, pero también sobre las paradojas psicológicas del terror, sobre nuestro miedo a la muerte, sobre el horror que nos producen los zombis y

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Featured in these pages are Edgar Allan Poe's best-loved and most-feared literary creations: the clever C. August Dupin, precursor to Sherlock Holmes; the terrifying ghouls ofTales of the Grotesque and Arabesque; as well as the tragic sensibilities ofThe Raven and Other Poems. This is an essential treasury for Poe novices and experts alike.

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Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around you, waiting... In these stories by Edgar Allan Poe, death whispers at you from every dark corner, and fear can send you mad...CEFR A2/B1Word count 6,000

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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe'... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...'Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', the creeping insanity of 'The Tell-Tale Heart', the Gothic nightmare of 'The Masque of the Red Death', and the terrible doom of 'The Fall of the House of Usher'.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant collection of some of his best-known stories: The Tell Tale Heart (a murder's haunting guilt), The Cask of Amontillado (a story of brilliant revenge), and The Fall of the House of Usher (an ancient house full of very dark secretes). Also included in this collection are The Mask of the Red Death (horrors of 'the Plague'), and the most famous of all his poems: The Raven (a lover's decline into madness). Best read in a dimly-lit room with the curtains drawn, Poe's brilliant works come to life in darkly thrilling ways in this Manga Classic adaptation.

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Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and fantasy were his forte and in later life he responded to the dark stimulus of Poe's gothic tales with gleeful appreciation of their macabre and otherworldly qualities, claiming afterwards that he had quite succeeded in frightening himself! For lovers of the thrilling and chilling, young and old, Poe's sensational stories cannot fail to hit the spot. This collection contains the best of his prose works, including of course the well-known masterpieces 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (the ultimate haunted house story), 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (the very first detective story in fiction). First published in 1935 it has been redesigned, re-typeset and republished in a handsome edition which features all Rackham's original colour and black and white illustrations. A perfect gift - though not for the faint-hearted!

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He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.

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One of the greatest writers of the gothic fantastic, Poe’s dark, masterful stories inspired a generation of writers. With his macabre twists of fate and fascination with science and invention his work led to the detective stories of Sherlock Holmes, the weird horror of H.P. Lovecraft and the grim, tortured tales of Stephen King.

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The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Gold-Bug - some of the most famous tales of terror and the most macabre detective stories ever written. Acknowledged master of suspense, Poe was also a poet and - as his stories of mesmerism and time travel prove - a pioneer of science fiction. In this collection, probing to the depths of the human psyche, Poe's haunted genius will chill and enthral you.

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One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the scientific developments of an era marked by staggering change. In this collection of sixteen stories, he explores such wide-ranging contemporary themes as galvanism, time travel and resurrection of the dead. 'The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfall' relates a man's balloon journey to the moon with a combination of scientific precision and astonishing fantasy. Elsewhere, the boundaries between horror and science are elegantly blurred in stories such as 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar', while the great essay 'Eureka' outlines Poe's own interpretation of the universe. Powerfully influential on later authors including Jules Verne, these works are essential reading for anyone wishing to trace the genealogy of science fiction, or to understand the complexity of Poe's own creative vision

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Carefully controlled information, structure and vocabulary Some difficult words and phrases are explained with pictures The book has around 1100 basic words for Elementary-level students Free resources including worksheets, tests and author data sheets

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Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus. The two boys repeatedly find themselves on the brink of death or discovery and witness many terrifying events, including mutiny, cannibalism, and frantic pursuits. Poe imbued this deliberately popular tale with such allegorical richness, biblical imagery, and psychological insights that the tale has come to influence writers as various as Melville, James, Verne and Nabokov.

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El gato negro y otros cuentos reúne algunos de los mejores relatos de terror de Edgar Allan Poe: un terrorífico gato negro con un nombre de connotaciones demoníacas, un juego entre los sentidos desarrollados en un espacio cerrado, el fetichismo necrofílico de los blancos dientes de la joven Berenice, la terrible y detallada historia de un naufragio, las bases de una estudiada venganza, un crimen perfecto y los increíbles hechos de un caso articulado en torno a la doctrina del magnetismo animal.

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El legado hoy en día de Edgar Allan Poe es inmenso y la influencia que ha ejercido en todas las artes le convierten no sólo en uno de los escritores más significativos de todos los tiempos, sino en un auténtico icono cultural. El " fundador de la escuela de lo extraño " , como le calificó Julio Verne, pasó la vida luchando por lograr el éxito literario que le pudiera aportar tranquilidad económica, pero sus propios fantasmas y adicciones le apartaban del objetivo cada vez que se acercaba a conseguirlo. Fue capaz de componer algunas de las narraciones breves más importantes de la historia de la literatura, auténticas obras de arte que marcarían el camino para los que vinieron después. Este volumen recoge ocho de ellas: " El escarabajo de oro " , " La caída de la casa Usher " , " El corazón delator " , " El gato negro " , " William Wilson " , " La máscara de la Muerte Roja " , " La carta robada " y " Ligeia " .

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Un asesino exasperado por el latido del corazón aún palpitante de su víctima...Una institución mental dirigida por alguien ajeno al personal...Una caja misteriosa a bordo de un barco con un terrible secreto...La mirada del hipnotizador que, tal vez, podría paralizar a la misma Muerte...Ponte la cámisa de fuerza y abróchatela bien, porque en estas páginas hay historias de amor perdido, caminos errados... y mentes extraviadas. Esta entrega de los mejores relatos de Poe incluye El corazón delator, El sistema del doctor Tarr y el profesor Fether, La caja oblonga y Los hechos del caso del Sr. Valdemar.El terror, lo macabro y el horror siguen alcanzando cotas sobrenaturales gracias a las escalofriantes ilustraciones de Gris Grimly.Abre el libro... si te atreves.Las ilustraciones deliciosamente malévolas de Grimly son el complemento ideal a los cuentos macabros de Poe.School Library JournalUn espectacular cómic con cuatro terroríficos relatos de Poe

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Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.” With that undying line Edgar Allan Poe ensured his immortality in the annals of American letters. What student of literature or lover of poetry is not familiar with his poem “The Raven,” and the heartbreaking message implicit in its melancholy refrain? “The Raven” is by far Poe’s best-known poem and it is one of more than forty to be found in The Raven and Other Poems, a volume that collects the best of Poe’s exercises in verse. Here, readers are treated to such masterpieces as “Annabel Lee,” “The Haunted Palace,” “The Conqueror Worm,” “The City in the Sea,” “Lenore,” and many more. These poems are imbued with the somber seriousness that we associate with Poe’s macabre fiction, but also with his marvelous appraisals of the mysteries of our and other worlds, and his fervent belief in undying love.The Raven and Other Poems is one of Barnes & Noble’s Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world’s greatest authors in an elegantly designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging.

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Suddenly there came a tapping. The Raven and Other Selected Works by Edgar Allan Poe, a collection comprising his famous poem and 25 of his remarkable short stories, is now available in an exquisite hardcover edition featuring a striking cover and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for fiction lovers, horror fans, and book collectors. Each collectible volume will be the perfect addition to any well-appointed library.Harper Muse Classics: The Gothic Chronicles Collection presents The Raven and Other Selected Works: Opens with Poe''s most famous poem, The Raven, which made the author a literary celebrity nearly overnight Includes 25 of Poe''s thrilling short stories, which have been frightening and intriguing readers for more than 150 years Features Poe''s best-loved stories including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of

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The works of Edgar Allan Poe have enthralled and terrified readers for over 150 years. Their macabre blend of doomed romanticism, gothic melodrama and ghoulish destiny earned him a place at the top of the list of fiction's greatest authors. Famous for his poems and short stories, Poe virtually created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller. Nevermore brings Poe to a new audience, showcasing his most memorable stories, which are re-imagined and revived by the cream of modern comics creators.

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Twenty-five spine-tingling tales and poems from the preeminent writer of American gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, now available in a Harper Perennial Olive Edition.Of all the American masters, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation, as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe is the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill.Of all the preeminent 19th century American writers, Edgar Allan Poe staked out the most vivid reputation as a master of the macabre. Poe remains the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill.A prolific writer of poetry and criticism in addition to fiction, Poe was known not only for the eerie beauty of his prose but his formidable satire. He is revered as one of the foremost American gothic stylists.The best of Poes short fiction is collecte

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