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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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Edgar Allan Poe fue un escritor norteamericano que está considerado, con justicia, como el maestro de los cuentos de terror. Tuvo una vida bastante desdichada, murió joven, a los 40 añ os, pero tuvo tiempo para crear un obra donde combina como nadie, elementos fantá sticos y de la má s inteligente literatura policial. En este libro te presentamos siete de sus relatos má s espeluznantes: El gato negro, Manuscrito hallado en una botella, El retrato oval, El corazó n delator, Morella, La isla del hada y La caja de pino.

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Conocido sobre todo por sus impresionantes cuentos que abrieron la senda de los géneros de terror, científico y policiaco, así como por la " Narración de Arthur Gordon Pym " , Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1847) plasmó asimismo su particular mundo y sus obsesiones en el campo de la poesía, en el que trascendió el romanticismo para convertirse en precursor de movimientos subsiguientes. La presente antología reúne, en versión bilingüe, sus poemas más célebres, como Annabel Lee, Las campanas, Ulalume y otras, además de El cuervo, pieza memorable que, con todos sus aciertos y claudicaciones, se ha hecho con un lugar en la historia de la poesía por su inimitable originalidad y por una llama que ha concitado siempre el interés de críticos y lectores.Selección y traducción de Antonio Rivero Taravillo

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Adaptación a novela gráfica de tres cuentos del clásico Edgar Allan Poe, coincidiendo con el bicentenario del nacimiento del autor.Tres cuentos: El escarabajo de oro, El método del doctor Alquitrán y el profesor Pluma y El hundimiento de la casa Usher. La ilustración añade un toque de modernidad al contenido, ya que proviene del mundo de la publicidad y la prensa. Algo más fresco y atrevido para un clásico de la magnitud de Poe, contado a través de un estilo que conserva la esencia del estilo del autor original y combinándolo con el impacto de este tipo de ilustración.

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This mesmerising, macabre collection contains Edgar Allan Poe's best-known poetry, including 'The Raven', 'Annabel Lee' and 'Lenore', and a selection of his very best stories, along with his finest tales from the last decade of his tragically short life. Many of these stories and poems explore the familiar Poe themes of murder, obsession and love, but this volume also contains many overlooked tales of the fantastic, black comedies, parodies and hoaxes, such as 'The Unparalleled Adventure of Hans Pfaall', 'Mesmeric Revolution', 'Hop-Frog', and 'The Imp of the Perverse'.This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Tales and Poems features an afterword by David Pinching.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

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The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this volume offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary poetry, and a selection of random "opinions" on fancy and the imagination, music and poetry, intuition and sundry other topics.

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'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ... the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.'Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Poe's works available in Penguin Classics are The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Portable Edgar Allan Poe and The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘True! Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them.’ This ultimate collection of the infamous author’s works includes ‘The Raven’, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. They focus on the internal conflict of individuals, the power of the dead over the living, and psychological explorations of darker human emotion. An American writer of fantastical, bizarre and sometimes disturbing short stories, Poe wrote in the first half of the nineteenth century. Preoccupied with delving into the darker reaches of the human psyche, Poe is inventor of the detective story and master of the macabre.

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Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather's disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune. In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities - journalism, poetry, lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentation with fictional genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) - he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of The Raven in 1845. The poem's instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles, but his personal situation remained desperate: poverty, illness, drink, and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline. In 1849 he was found sick, injured and semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern. Taken to hospital, he lingered on for four days, but never recovered and on October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40. He was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters - a genius who, thanks to his dire reputation, was tragically misunderstood during his lifetime. It was not until Baudelaire enthusiastically translated his work that he found a wider audience in Europe, and became not only an enormous influence on modern French literature but also on the acclaimed work of writers such as Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle and Jules Verne.

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