Download or read book The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of E. A. Poe’s more horror-oriented stories, "The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar" presents the author’s obsession with death, scientific experiments, and resurrection. Playing around with forbidden and unscientific methods, Poe vehemently tries to exhibit his own medical knowledge to the reading public, asking for some sort of pardon for the horrific and disgusting end of his experiment. The depiction of gore and "detestable putrescence" paves the way for another master of American horror, H. P. Lovecraft, whose dream journeys and loathsome descriptions owe a great debt to Poe’s story. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, author, and literary critic. Most famous for his poetry, short stories, and tales of the supernatural, mysterious, and macabre, he is also regarded as the inventor of the detective genre and a contributor to the emergence of science fiction, dark romanticism, and weird fiction. His most famous works include "The Raven" (1945), "The Black Cat" (1943), and "The Gold-Bug" (1843).
Download or read book Ten Great Mysteries written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1960 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten tales by the master of the macabre.
Download or read book The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", by Edgar Allan Poe, recounts the experimentation of hypnosis on Valdemar, on the verge of death, resulting in a prolonged suspension between life and death. After months, his accelerated decomposition occurs when he is awakened, culminating in a horrifying outcome.
Download or read book King Pest written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »King Pest« is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published in 1835. EDGAR ALLAN POE was born in Boston in 1809. After brief stints in academia and the military, he began working as a literary critic and author. He made his debut with the novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket in 1838, but it was in his short stories that Poe's peculiar style truly flourished. He died in Baltimore in 1849.
Download or read book Tales of Mystery and Imagination written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by London ; Edinburgh : H. Frowde. This book was released on 1903 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Domain of Arnheim written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, "The Domain of Arnheim" is a tale of a fantastically wealthy man called "Ellison" who desires to express "the true character, the august aims, the supreme majesty and dignity of the poetic sentiment". He achieves his goal through creating "Arnheim", a castle and landscape-garden of supreme loveliness. As Ellison says, man can't affect the "general condition of man", but must be "thrown back...upon self". The first half of the story is a discussion of Ellison's philosophies concerning man and nature, and the second a detailed description of Arnheim itself. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American author, editor, poet, and critic. Most famous for his stories of mystery and horror, he was one of the first American short story writers, and is widely considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre. Many antiquarian books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe s Tales of Death and Dementia written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murderer driven to the edge by the sound of his victim's still-beating heart… A mental institution run by someone other than its staff… A mysterious box aboard a ship with a ghastly secret… And the hypnotist's stare that could, perhaps, paralyze even death… Strap into your straitjacket, fasten it tight, and brace yourself! For within these pages are stories of lost love, lost ways… and lost minds. Gris Grimly's mysterious, morbid, macabre illustrations capture four Poe classics, including perennial favourite, The Tell Tale Heart, with an unmatchable ghoulish charm. Read them if you dare ~ and celebrate, in true Poe style, the two hundredth anniversary of the birth ofthe great Master of the Macabre.
Download or read book How I Wrote the Raven written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Edgar Allan Poe writes how he came to produce his poem.
Download or read book Maxon s Poe written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Man of the Crowd written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-02-05 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Man of the Crowd" by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator becomes obsessed with following a mysterious old man through the bustling streets of London, intrigued by his enigmatic presence. This pursuit reveals the complexity of human nature and the impenetrability of urban anonymity.
Download or read book The Best of Poe written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic? includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader contend with Poe's allusions and complicated vocabulary.Edgar Allan Poe'his name conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, of love that extends beyond the grave, and of black ravens who utter only one word. The richness of Poe's writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death.Alive with hypnotic sounds and mesmerizing rhythms, his poetry captures both the splendor and devastation of love, life, and death. His stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings. Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe's characters are instantly recognizable'even though we may be appalled by their actions, we understand their motivations.The thirty-three selections in The Best of Poe highlight his unique qualities. Discover for yourself the mysterious allure and genius of Edgar Allan Poe, who remains one of America's most popular and important authors, even more than 150 years after his death.
Download or read book The Reason for the Darkness of the Night written by John Tresch and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award Winner of the 2021 Quinn Award An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe—highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is beloved around the world for his pioneering detective fiction, tales of horror, and haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”? In The Reason for the Darkness of the Night, John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe’s obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. Even as he composed dazzling works of fiction, he remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era’s most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues. As one newspaper put it, “Mr. Poe is not merely a man of science—not merely a poet—not merely a man of letters. He is all combined; and perhaps he is something more.” Taking us through his early training in mathematics and engineering at West Point and the tumultuous years that followed, Tresch shows that Poe lived, thought, and suffered surrounded by science—and that many of his most renowned and imaginative works can best be understood in its company. He cast doubt on perceived certainties even as he hungered for knowledge, and at the end of his life delivered a mind-bending lecture on the origins of the universe that would win the admiration of twentieth-century physicists. Pursuing extraordinary conjectures and a unique aesthetic vision, he remained a figure of explosive contradiction: he gleefully exposed the hoaxes of the era’s scientific fraudsters even as he perpetrated hoaxes himself. Tracing Poe’s hard and brilliant journey, The Reason for the Darkness of the Night is an essential new portrait of a writer whose life is synonymous with mystery and imagination—and an entertaining, erudite tour of the world of American science just as it was beginning to come into its own.
Download or read book The Best of Edgar Allan Poe Diversion Classics written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. The stories of Edgar Allan Poe have long fascinated fans of both horror and suspense. This anthology showcases the tales that have captivated audiences and inspired countless adaptations. Including beloved stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Cask of Amontillado," this collection is a must-own for fans of Edgar Allan Poe.
Download or read book The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe written by Harold Beaver and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the scientific developments of an era marked by staggering change. In this collection of sixteen stories, he explores such wide-ranging contemporary themes as galvanism, time travel and resurrection of the dead. 'The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfall' relates a man's balloon journey to the moon with a combination of scientific precision and astonishing fantasy. Elsewhere, the boundaries between horror and science are elegantly blurred in stories such as 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar', while the great essay 'Eureka' outlines Poe's own interpretation of the universe. Powerfully influential on later authors including Jules Verne, these works are essential reading for anyone wishing to trace the genealogy of science fiction, or to understand the complexity of Poe's own creative vision
Download or read book The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also, to a certain degree, a hoax, as it was published without claiming to be fictional, and many at the time of publication (1845) took it to be a factual account. Poe toyed with this for a while before admitting it was a work of pure fiction in his marginalia. Edgar Allan Poe is also famous for such works as ''The Raven'', "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Gold-Bug", "The Black Cat", "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", "Hop-Frog" and many more.
Download or read book Zombies written by Otto Penzler and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 1903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handpicked by legendary editor Otto Penzler, this is the biggest and bloodiest collection of stories. Featuring a cast of world-class writers, including H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe, Joe R. Lansdale, Vivian Meik, Lisa Tuttle, W.B. Seabrook, Karen Haber, Guy De Maupassant, Richard Laymon, Thomas Burke, Anthony Boucher, John Knox, Theodore Sturgeon and Seabury Quinn, this might just be the world's biggest and bloodiest zombie anthology yet. Horrifying ghouls, decaying corpses, body snatchers, grave robbers and flesh-eating monsters. In this gruesome anthology of the living dead, all these and more will try to catch your eye and devour your brain. From the macabre pens of the world's most spine-tingling horror and fantasy writers, the grisliest, goriest, ghastliest stories from the last two centuries have been plucked from the shadows by legendary editor Otto Penzler, to form the most monstrous volume in zombie history.
Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe the Complete Short Story Collection written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C&C brings you our complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe short stories, comprised of over 60 classic short stories, by one of the most influential writers of the romantic genre. Selections includes, but not limited to the following:"A Tale of Jerusalem" (1832),"Bon-Bon" (1832),"Loss of Breath" (1832),"Metzengerstein" (1832),"The Duc de L'Omelette" (1832),"Four Beasts in One" (1833),"MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833),"The Assignation" (1834),,"Berenice" (1835),"King Pest" (1835),"Lionizing" (1835),"Morella" (1835),"Shadow" (1835),"Mystification" (1837),"A Predicament" (1838),"Ligeia" (1838),"Silence" (1838),"The Devil in the Belfry" (1839),"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839),"The Man That Was Used Up" (1839),"William Wilson" (1839),"The Business Man" (1840),"The Man of the Crowd" (1840),"A Descent into the Maelstr�m" (1841),"Eleonora" (1841),"Never Bet the Devil Your Head" (1841),"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841),"Three Sundays in a Week" (1841),"The Gold-Bug" (1842),"The Landscape Garden" (1842),"The Masque of the Red Death" (1842),"The Mystery of Marie Rog�t" (1842),"The Oval Portrait" (1842),"The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842),"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (1843),"The Black Cat" (1843),"The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843),"Mesmeric Revelation" (1844),"Thou Art the Man" (1844),"The Angel of the Odd" (1844),"The Balloon-Hoax" (1844),"The Oblong Box" (1844),"The Premature Burial" (1844),"The Purloined Letter" (1844),"The Spectacles" (1844),"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1844),"Some Words with a Mummy" (1845),"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845),"The Imp of the Perverse" (1845),"The Power of Words" (1845),"The Cask of Amontillado" (1846),"The Domain of Arnheim" (1846),"The Sphinx" (1846),"Hop-Frog" (1849),"Landor's Cottage" (1849),"Mellonta Tauta" (1849),"The Light-House" (1849),"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" (1849),
