Selected Writings - Edgar Allan Poe

The lines from Ligeia epitomise the familiar Poe the arch priest of Gothic horror author of The Masque of the Red Death and The Pit and the Pendulum. That Poe unquestioned master of the Grotesque is fully represented here but the volume also includes generous selections from his poetry and critical writings. Together they amount to a portrait of a complex personality that of a conscious aesthete the most exotic of American writers who was at the same time keenly engaged in an astonishing variety of interests. Nor are the Grotesque tales the simple manipulations of terror that they seem.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer of fiction poetry and criticism. He is widely credited with pioneering the modern detective story and advancing horror literature.

ISBN: 0-14-043028-8