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It is the 15th century. An unidentified country is infected with a contagion known as the Red Death. Half the population has succumbed to a quick, gory, and painful death. Prospero, the prince, deals with the situation by inviting a thousand of his people to revel with him in a palace designed with seven rooms located in a secluded abbey.

This is an original multi-voice dramatization of Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece, The Raven. The story tells of a forlorn gentleman who is still mourning the loss of his one true love. With a raging storm outside, he peers out into the ever-after. Then, while becoming lost in a state of melancholy, he is visited by an ominous raven with a ghastly single-word vocabulary.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Here is a fifth collection of some of his best stories: "The Pit and the Pendulum", "A Descent into the Maelstrom", and "Mesmeric Revelation".

Letto da Fabio Giua. Continua la serie di audioracconti tratti dalle opere dei grandi autori del passato: per questa quarta uscita, altri stupendi racconti del maestro del terrore, Edgar Allan Poe: Il Pozzo e il Pendolo; La Rovina della Casa Usher; La Verità sul Caso Valdemar; L'Appuntamento; Manoscritto trovato in una Bottiglia.

Un gruppo di pescatori norvegesi con la loro barca si imbatte in una improvvisa e violenta tempesta. La piccola imbarcazione viene sospinta dai flutti delle onde al centro di un immenso vortice perenne presente in quella zona, chiamato maelström. Per i pescatori è impossibile sfuggire a quel fenomeno naturale: una volta che si viene attirati verso il centro, infatti, si apre un abisso a forma di cono, che scaraventa la barca sul fondale con incredibile violenza. I marinai vengono risucchiati dal vortice, ma uno di loro si salva aggrappandosi a un barile vuoto.

"King Pest: An Allegory" is a fantastic account by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) who with excellent humor narrates a night of terror, taking on the subject of epidemics, in this case the Plague.

The narrator presents the facts of the extraordinary case of his friend Ernest Valdemar, which have incited public discussion. He is interested in mesmerism, a pseudoscience involving bringing a patient into a hypnagogic state by the influence of animal magnetism, a process that later developed into hypnotism. He points out that, as far as he knows, no one has ever been mesmerized at the point of death, and he is curious to see what effects mesmerism would have on a dying person.

The narrator begins by booking passage on a ship to travel from Charleston, SC to New York. He soon finds that an artist friend, Mr. Cornelius Wyatt, along with Wyatt's wife and two sisters, will be on the same ship. Our narrator reports that there are three rooms booked for this party, and he wonders what the explanation can be. Of course, it must be a servant! But he sees that the word servant had been on the passenger list, but had been crossed out. We also learn at this point that the narrator knows Mr. Wyatt's sisters, but has never met the wife.

"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy" (1842), is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey.

The narrator knows very little about his friend. Upon arriving, the narrator describes the Usher family mansion in great detail, focusing on its most fantastic features and its unearthly atmosphere. Shortly after entering, the narrator is greeted by Roderick, who displays a number of strange symptoms. He claims his senses are especially acute: therefore, he cannot wear clothes of certain textures or eat particularly flavourful foods, and his eyes are bothered by even the faintest lights.

This bundle contains: The Black Cat; The Raven; The Mask of the Red Death; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Oblong Box; The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar; and King Pest.

This audiobook has a music version and a non-music version. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man's heart is still beating under the floorboards.

Una moglie morta da tempo sembra resuscitare in questo classico racconto di Edgar Allan Poe. Una storia coinvolgente e piena di atmosfera, "Ligeia" combina magistralmente realismo, fantasia e horror nel più classico stile di Poe. "Ligeia" ha intrigato intere generazioni di scrittori e studiosi che a tutt'oggi dibattono il significato simbolico di questa storia cupa e affascinante. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) è stato un poeta, scrittore e critico letterario americano. Noto soprattutto per le sue poesie, i racconti e gli argomenti soprannaturali, misteriosi e macabri.

Un viaggio per mare finito molto, molto male. Il manoscritto, ritrovato in una bottiglia affiorata, racconta le avventure nautiche da incubo di un uomo. Egli è sopravvissuto ad un terribile naufragio soltanto per essere salvato da un'altra nave destinata al disastro. Un classico dei racconti horror scritto dal maestro del genere, Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) è stato un poeta, scrittore e critico letterario americano. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) è stato un poeta, scrittore e critico letterario americano.

Una giovane coppia conduce una vita tranquilla e silenziosa in una casa piena di animali domestici molto amati. Il protagonista è particolarmente legato a Pluto, un gatto nero che lo segue ovunque. Tuttavia, col passare del tempo, il giovane inizia a bere sempre di più, e il suo comportamento cambia: diventa irato, scontroso e violento, arrivando a maltrattare sia la moglie che gli animali. La caduta nella decadenza e nel sadismo lo portano a commettere crimini atroci. Lo tormentano fino a farlo impazzire e l'esito non può che essere terribile.

Un joven matrimonio lleva una vida hogareña apacible con su gato, hasta que el marido empieza a dejarse arrastrar por la bebida. El alcohol le vuelve irascible y en uno de sus accesos de furia acaba con la vida del animal.

Chevalier Auguste Dupin, normalmente conocido como C. Auguste Dupin, es un detective de ficción creado por Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin hizo su primera aparición en ”Los crímenes de la calle Morgue” (1841) de Poe, considerado el primer relato policial. Vuelve a aparecer en “El misterio de Marie Rogêt” (1842) y en “La carta robada” (1844).

Marie Roget era una bella dama que ayudaba a su anciana madre a dirigir una pensión. Su padre había muerto cuando ella era pequeña. A la edad de 22 años entró a trabajar en una perfumería, captando la atención de su empleador y clientes. Su ritmo de vida era normal, hasta que un díadesapareció misteriosamente.

Award-winning audiobook narrator Mike Vendetti admirably performs the three voices of this Poe short story.

Fantasy author Ken Altabef lends his unique voice talents to a modern reading of 13 classic tales (and six poems) by Edgar Allan Poe.