The Pit and the Pendulum

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141918950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In The Tell Tale Heart, a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as The Pit and the Pendulum and The Cask of Amontillado explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate.

The Pit and the Pendulum

Author:
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1434242609
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
A tale of terror exploring the dizzying highs and horrifying lows of a prisoner sentenced to death.

Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307781402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
A new selection for the NEA’s Big Read program A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and such unforgettable poems as “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee.” Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by “The Purloined Letter,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Also included is his essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” in which he lays out his theory of how good writers write, describing how he constructed “The Raven” as an example.

Journeys Through Bookland

Author: Charles Herbert Sylvester
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthologies
Languages : en
Pages : 524

Book Description

Poe

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881010572
Category : Children's stories, American.
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
An illustrated collection of some of Poe's sinister tales, including "The Black Cat, " "The Fall of the House of Usher, " "The Premature Burial, " and a few of his poems.

Interactive Mathematics Program

Author: Daniel M. Fendel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Consists of textbook and individual teacher's guides to each unit.

Visions of Death

Author: Richard Matheson
Publisher: Visions of Death
ISBN: 9781887368940
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
RICHARD MATHESON'S EDGAR ALLAN SCRIPTS THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM AND THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER WHICH WERE FILMED BY ROGER CORMAN

How I Wrote the Raven

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781410104946
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Here Edgar Allan Poe writes how he came to produce his poem.

Ten Great Mysteries

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780590085953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Ten tales by the master of the macabre.

The Pit and the Pendulum

Author: Amarantha Knight
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781563336393
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
The mistress of erotic horror takes on Edgar Allen Poe -- and produces her most stimulating volume yet Poe's deadly pit is transformed into the site of a thousand unbearable pleasures, a carnal playground frequented by the perverse members of a secret society devoted to sensual experimentation. One young woman, herself blessed with extraordinary talents, is about to discover what has made the Pit of Delights a legend...