An inescapable black pit, the accusing eye of a black cat and an innocent buried alive all haunts this collection of Edgar Allan Poe's most celebrated stories. The undisputed master of gothic horror probes every imaginable depth of terror in his claustrophobic nightmares of murder and madness, including the classic ‘The Fall of the House of Usher', ‘The Pit and the Pendulum' and ‘The Masque of the Red Death'. Witness too the tales of the first modern detective hero, the eccentric and ingenious Auguste Dupin.

In these chilling stories, Edgar Allan Poe's macabre imagination explores the darkest corners of the human mind and the furthest reaches of the paranormal.