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For the 200th anniversary of his birth, a collection from the master of heart-stopping horror
Edgar Allan Poe is not only the finest, most terrifying writer of Gothic tales ever to have lived, he also wrote extraordinary poems and, with ‘The Murders on the Rue Morgue’, invented the detective story, paving the way for Sherlock Holmes.
In this new collection, Poe’s genius its full breadth.
Poe writes of the torments of ingenious, malevolent persecutors and of a mind’s own sicking, madness, while in the mournful ‘The Raven’ and other poems, his writing is beautiful, elegiac and filled with dread.
Selected and introduced by Peter Ackroyd (author of London- The Biography and Poe- A Life Cut Short), with a cover design by the artist Harland Miller (who has previously curated an exhibition of contemporary artists’ responses to Poe), The Pit and the Pendulum is a collection of works of a dark and brilliant genius.
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For the 200th anniversary of his birth, a collection from the master of heart-stopping horror
Edgar Allan Poe is not only the finest, most terrifying writer of Gothic tales ever to have lived, he also wrote extraordinary poems and, with ‘The Murders on the Rue Morgue’, invented the detective story, paving the way for Sherlock Holmes.
In this new collection, Poe’s genius its full breadth.
Poe writes of the torments of ingenious, malevolent persecutors and of a mind’s own sicking, madness, while in the mournful ‘The Raven’ and other poems, his writing is beautiful, elegiac and filled with dread.
Selected and introduced by Peter Ackroyd (author of London- The Biography and Poe- A Life Cut Short), with a cover design by the artist Harland Miller (who has previously curated an exhibition of contemporary artists’ responses to Poe), The Pit and the Pendulum is a collection of works of a dark and brilliant genius.
Edgar Allan Poe is one of America's best known gothic writers, whose short stories and poetry often deal with uncanny mysteries and the macabre.