Tales of Mystery & Imagination

Gorgeous collectable edition, now in black and silver livery, with a new introduction, of Edgar Allan Poe's timeless gothic horror.
This beautiful collection with a new introduction compiles Edgar Allan Poe’s most terrifying and otherworldly works. Included are the very first modern detective stories, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter. As well as these are the most famous of Poe’s works, including The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Premature Burial and The Tell-Tale Heart.
Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe is well known for being an author, poet, editor and literary critic during the American Romantic Movement. He is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre as well as being an important influence on early science fiction, and his works are famously filled with terror, mystery, death and haunting. The dark, mystifying characters from his tales have captured the public’s imagination and reflect the struggling, poverty-stricken lifestyle he lived his whole life.
Dr. Simon Marsden (Introduction) focuses his research on intersections of literature, theology and religion from the Romantic period to the present. He has a particular interest in the Gothic genre in both the Victorian and contemporary periods. His book The Theological Turn in Contemporary Gothic Fiction explores forms of theological engagement in Gothic and horror literature of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. His current research focuses on the uses of literature and literary criticism in the work of Black Liberation and Womanist theologians from the 1960s onwards.
Judith John (glossary) is a writer and editor specializing in literature and history. She has worked as an editor on major educational projects, including English A: Literature for the Pearson International Baccalaureate series. Judith’s major research interests include Romantic and Gothic literature, and Renaissance drama.