Published for the 60th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's death, this decorative new edition is ideal for fans of the gothic master and will draw in new readers All three books in the series contain new introductions by Neil Gaiman Published in time for Hallowe'en and dark winter nights, all three books in the series are high-spec paperbacks with black-edged pages
Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short-story writer, editor
and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the
macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the
short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction
genre.
Born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809; he was informally
adopted by the Allans of Richmond after his parents' death. He
attended the University of Virginia and briefly attempted a
military career, before embarking on a literary career.
After publishing an anonymous collection of poems in 1827, Poe
switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years
working for literary journals and periodicals. He married his
cousin, Virginia Clemm, in 1835, who died in 1842 not long after
publishing his famous poem ‘The Raven'. He began planning to
produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), but
died in 1849 before being able to see it produced.
‘Plagued all his life by scandals and rumours, dogged by
depression, prey to terrible fantasies and even more terrible
phobias, Poe's writing reflects the madness in every lover's heart,
the dark side of desire, the terror of being consumed alive by
something half-goddess, half-beast'
*Joanne Harris, Daily Telegraph*
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