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  • The Pit and the Pendulum
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This book contains Edgar Allen Poe’s 1842 short story, “The Pit and the Pendulum”. An unnamed narrator is brought before a panel of ominous judges during the Spanish Inquisition. His subsequent torture is presented in in minute, gory detail. A chilling and engrossing tale by the master of the macabre, “The Pit and Pendulum” is a veritable must-read. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) ...
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    16,88 €

  • The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This volume contains Edgar Allen Poe’s 1845 short story, 'The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade'. A day after Scheherazade escaped death, she endeavours to recount another story to the king, this time of a retired Sinbad who finds himself seeking out new adventure. A comical sequel to the classic Sinbad tales, 'The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade' is highly reco...
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    18,00 €

  • The Domain of Arnheim
    Edgar Allan Poe
    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 m...
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    19,19 €

  • Bon-Bon (the Bargain Lost)
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This book contains Edgar Allen Poe’s 1832 comedic short story, 'Bon-Bon '. Pierre Bon-Bon is a proud philosopher who considers himself one of the greatest thinkers to have ever lived. However, his philosophical profundity is challenged by a conversation with the Devil, who reveals that he has devoured the souls of innumerable seminal philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle....
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    19,22 €

  • Some Words with a Mummy
    Edgar Allan Poe
    The narrator is invited by a doctor to witness the unwrapping of a mummy at a private residence. After arriving, he and the assembled group of excited men begin opening the sarcophagus and eventually unveil the mummified body, which appears to be surprisingly well-preserved. After some hours of examine the body, they decide to electrify the corpse, only to awaken the ancient pe...
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    18,13 €

  • The Psyche Zenobia
    Edgar Allan Poe
    The story follows a female narrator who, accompanied by her tiny poodle and 3-foot-tall servant, comes across a gothic cathedral whilst walking in a city. When she ascends to the top of the steeple, she attempts to look through a small opening with her servant’s aid. Pushing her head through the hole, she realises that she appears to be inside a large clock face, and that she i...
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    13,49 €

  • 'Thou Art the Man'
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This book contains Edgar Allen Poe’s 1844 short story, 'Thou Art the Man'. One of Poe’s early attempts at detective fiction, the story revolves around the murder of the wealthy Barnabas Shuttleworthy and the accusation of his nephew and heir. An absent corpse, a mysterious shipment of wine, and a cunning plot by the shady narrator align to exonerate the innocent and illuminate ...
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    12,27 €

  • The Premature Burial
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This book contains Edgar Allan Poe’s 1844 short story, “The Premature Burial”. The narrator describes his life-long obsession and a resulting disorder that sees him slip in and out of death-like trances. His true fear is being mistaken for dead during a trance and buried without his knowledge—a situation that he takes numerous precautions against. After finding himself waking i...
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    18,03 €

  • Mellonta Tauta
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This is Edgar Allen Poe’s 1849 short story, 'Mellonta Tauta'. It is presented as a collection of letters written by a woman during a balloon flight in 2848. Within the letters-directed to a personal friend-she compares contemporary science, philosophy, and customs to those of a thousand years previous, but frequently misinterprets and misunderstands the historic ideas and tradi...
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    12,24 €

  • The Complete Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Collectors Edition) (SF Classic) 1000 Copy Limited Edition
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Assembled for the first time is a complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s science fiction stories. These sixteen tales include Poe’s only novel ’Arthur Gordon Pym’, which is filled with fantastical thoughts on life at the south polar region. ’The Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfall’ involves space travel and aliens, ’Some Words with a Mummy’ explores the realm of alternate h...
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    56,02 €

  • Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This single volume brings together all of Poe’s stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history. ...
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    55,57 €

  • El Kuerbo ... Tradukzion direkta del ingles por J. A. Pérez Bonalde. Edizion akompañada del testo ingles.
    Edgar Allan Poe / Juan Antonio Pérez bonalde
    Title: El Kuerbo ... Tradukzion direkta del ingles por J. A. Pérez Bonalde. Edizion akompañada del testo ingles.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, jou...
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    17,08 €

  • El Kuerbo ... Tradukzion direkta del ingles por J. A. Pérez Bonalde. Edizion akompañada del testo ingles.
    Edgar Allan Poe / Juan Antonio Pérez bonalde
    Title: El Kuerbo ... Tradukzion direkta del ingles por J. A. Pérez Bonalde. Edizion akompañada del testo ingles.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, jou...
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    17,19 €

  • Historias Estraordinarias [sic]...
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...
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    43,53 €

  • Historias Extraordinarias
    Edgar Allan Poe / Pedro Antonio De alarcón
    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...
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    24,77 €

  • The Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Volume II of II)
    Edgar Allan Poe
    'TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?' And so begins 'The Tell-Tale Heart', that compressed tale of Gothic composition. The characters and images that Edgar Allan Poe has gifted us are plentiful.Hugely influential to the short story genre, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) remains a lion of American letters. His morose ex...
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    13,95 €

  • The Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Volume I of II)
    Edgar Allan Poe
    'TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?' And so begins 'The Tell-Tale Heart', that compressed tale of Gothic composition. The characters and images that Edgar Allan Poe has gifted us are plentiful. Hugely influential to the short story genre, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) remains a lion of American letters. His morose e...
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    12,89 €

  • Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This collection of Poe’s finest stories comprises all the terrifying and bewildering tales that typify his work. All of Poe’s Auguste Dupin stories appear alongside the Gothic horror The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Premature Burial, and what is perhaps his most enduring work The Fall of the House of Usher. Never was there an illustrator whose work was more pe...
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    90,32 €

  • El Kuerbo...
    Edgar Allan Poe / Juan Antonio Perez Bonalde
    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is cult...
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    17,01 €

  • Eureka
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Eureka, A Prose Poem is over 40,000 words in length and it is not a poem! It was Poe’s last major work and was based on a lecture Poe presented in 1848, titled 'On The Cosmography of the Universe'. He had hoped for an audience of hundreds and that the proceeds of the lecture would pay for his new journal 'The Stylus'. However, only 60 attended and they went away confused. In Eu...
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    30,94 €

  • Lords of the Housetops-Thirteen Cat Tales
    And Others / Edgar Allan Poe / Mark Twain
    Lords of the Housetops-Thirteen Cat Tales has short stories by many famous authors, including Mark Twain, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe and many others. ...
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    9,77 €

  • The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This second volume, of a new five-volume edition of Poe’s works based on the Raven edition of 1903, contains many of Poe’s most celebrated chilling tales. The complete contents is: The Purloined Letter, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade, A Descent into the Maelström, Von Kempelen and his Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Black ...
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    21,85 €

  • The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849
    Edgar Allan Poe / Edgar Allan Poe / Washington Irving
    Ghost stories became very popular in the first half of the nineteenth century and this collection by Andrew Barger contains the very scariest of them all. Some stories thought too horrific were published anonymously like 'A Night in a Haunted House' and 'The Deaf and Dumb Girl.' The later story is collected for the first time in any anthology since its original publication in 1...
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    16,12 €

  • Aventuras De Arturo Gordon Pym
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...
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    38,22 €

  • Poems and Essays - Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This vintage book contains a complete collection of Edgar Allen Poe’s poetry and essays. One of the most celebrated and seminal figures in American literary history, Poe wrote hundreds of short stories in the horror, mystery, fantasy, detective, and science fiction genres; and has been immortalised in time as the unparalleled master of the macabre. This volume is would make for...
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    33,63 €

  • The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume Two
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This vintage book contains the second volume of “The Works of Edgar Allen Poe”. The Stories contained within this collection include: “The Purloined Letter”, “The Thousand-And-Second Tale Of Scheherazade”, “A Descent Into The Maelstrom”, “Von Kempelen And His Discovery”, “Mesmeric Revelation”, “The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar”, “The Black Cat”, “The Fall Of The House Of Us...
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    31,98 €

  • The Complete Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Collectors Edition)(SF Classic)
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Assembled for the first time is a complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s science fiction stories. These sixteen tales include Poe’s only novel ’Arthur Gordon Pym’, which is filled with fantastical thoughts on life at the south polar region. ’The Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfall’ involves space travel and aliens, ’Some Words with a Mummy’ explores the realm of alternate h...
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    24,72 €

  • The Tell Tale Heart - The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This vintage book contains Edgar Allen Poe’s 1843 short story, 'The Tell-Tale Heart'. An anonymous narrator recounts a murder that he has committed, detailing how he carefully dismembered the body and concealed it underneath the floorboards. His endeavours, however, are threatened when his guilt and insanity take on the form of a hallucination that the victim’s heart is still b...
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    30,22 €

  • William Wilson (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This antiquarian volume contains Edgar Allen Poe’s 1839 short story, 'William Wilson'. Inspired by his time spent living in the suburbs of London, Poe’s uncanny story tells the tale of William Wilson and his doppelgänger. The two boys look and move similarly, and when one leaves school, the other does the same. The only difference between the two is their moral code, a disparit...
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    18,06 €

  • Ligeia (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    Edgar Allan Poe
    This book contains Edgar Allen Poe’s 1838 short story, 'Ligeia'. An anonymous narrator recounts the story of his meeting a beautiful and intellectual woman 'in some large, old decaying city near the Rhine.' They get married, and Ligeia introduces her husband to all manner of mathematical and metaphysical knowledge. Soon after, she becomes seriously ill and dies. The narrator’s ...
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    16,85 €