The Murders In The Rue Morgue And Other Tales Av Edgar Allan Poe

<p><b>The Penguin English Library Edition of <i>The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales </i>by Edgar Allan Poe<br></b><br><b>''... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a <i>grotesquerie</i> in horror absolutely alien from humanity...''</b><br><br>Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe''s brilliant tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'', the creeping insanity of ''The Tell-Tale Heart'', the Gothic nightmare of ''The Masque of the Red Death'', and the terrible doom of ''The Fall of the House of Usher''.<br><br>The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.</p>