Edgar Allan Poe

Chapter titles have been updated to reflect the name of each poem/story as of March 2022. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most prolific authors of his time, eventually gaining recognition for his tales of horror and his uncanny ability to paint a macabre picture with words. The Complete Works...

Universally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe’s dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre. Now, Caedmon Audio presents a classic collection of Poe’s most terrifying tales performed by two of the most brilliant...

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society is delighted to present this all-new audiobook recording featuring all of Poe's tales and poems (and even his novel and play).

A fourth floor room, a door locked with the key inside, no way in, no way out. Edgar Allan Poe is the true grandfather of the murder mystery. Decades before Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, Poe gave us C. Auguste Dupin, a man able to solve mysteries through observation and deduction. This is...

Gothic master Edgar Allan Poe's complete works are collected in this multivolume set by Blackstone Audio. Here are his short stories, detective fiction, and poems in all their mysterious and macabre glory. Also included are Poe's literary reviews and editorial musings, comprising an often...

First published in an 1842 literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843, "The Pit and the Pendulum" takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and follows the plight of a prisoner in a cell that has a pit and a pendulum. Unlike many of Poe's short stories, "The Pit and...

“The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allan Poe is a classic detective story featuring the brilliant investigator C. Auguste Dupin. When an important letter is stolen from a powerful figure, the Paris police search everywhere but fail to find it. Dupin uses clever reasoning and psychological...

“My visions were of shipwreck and famine; of death or captivity among barbarian hordes...” Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, is a classic adventure story with disturbing supernatural elements that has fascinated and influenced many subsequent...

Inventore del racconto poliziesco e del thriller psicologico, Edgar Allan Poe ha affrontato atmosfere torbide e terrificanti, trame allucinanti e bizzarre, intrecci misteriosi, mondi inquietanti e grotteschi.

Read the best mystery and adventure short stories. Be it cozy, historical, detective or murder mystery stories; our collection includes them all: The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle The Arrow of Heaven by G. K. Chesterton The Sign...

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840.

Contents: Edgar Allan Poe - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - The Gold Bug - The Black Cat - The Pit and the Pendulum - The Tell-Tale Heart - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masque of the Red Death - The Cask of Amontillado - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Hop-Frog - The RavenBram...

Enter the haunting world of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, "The Raven," brought to life by the evocative narration of Anthony Pica. This timeless piece of gothic literature tells the story of a grief-stricken man visited by a mysterious raven in the dead of night. As the raven utters its...

"Mi hanno chiamato pazzo; ma nessuno ancora ha potuto stabilire se la pazzia sia o non sia la più elevata forma d'intelligenza, se la maggior parte di ciò che è glorioso, se tutto ciò che è profondo non derivi da una malattia del pensiero, da umori esaltati della mente a spese...

The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a landmark work of mystery fiction and widely regarded as the first modern detective story. Set in Paris, the tale introduces C.

"The Cask of Amontillado" is Edgar Allan Poe's short but enigmatic masterpiece. Set in an unnamed Italian city, we hear the story of how Montresor lures Fortunato through the catacombs into the Montresor family vault and there chains him up and bricks him in for eternity. Why he does it we will...

Markiewitz Audioworks presents Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. This production is a full audio dramatization (with incredible original music and magnificent sound effects) of one of the most popular horror stories of the past 200 years. In this story, a man (Edward) is afforded a place to...

First published in an 1849 edition of The Flag of Our Union, "Hop-Frog" is a revenge tale akin to "The Cask of Amontillado". Told from the perspective of a crippled jester who was taken from his homeland and has been abused by the king he serves, the story focuses on the revenge Hop-Frog takes...

Perhaps Poe's most famous work, "The Raven" was first published in 1845 in the New York Evening Mirror. Known for its tight rhymes and rhythm and the repetitive response given by the eponymous raven - "nevermore" - the poem focuses on that raven and a forlorn man who is distraught over his lost...

The Cask of Amontillado is a chilling tale of revenge and deception, crafted by the master of gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe. Set in the dark, shadowy catacombs of Italy, the story follows Montresor as he lures his unsuspecting victim, Fortunato, into a deadly trap. Under the guise of sharing a...