Supplementary material written by Gerard Cheshire.

The Gold Bug -- The Balloon Hoax -- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar -- MS Found in a Bottle -- The Black Cat -- The Fall of the House of Usher -- The Pit and the Pendulum -- The Cask of Amontillado -- The Imp of the Perverse -- The Tell-Tale Heart -- William Wilson -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue -- The Purloined Letter -- The Oblong Box -- How to write a Blackwood article -- The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade -- The Duc de l'omelette -- Three Sundays in a Week -- The Raven.

"This selection of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous 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."--Back cover.