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A fourth floor room, a door locked with the key inside, no way in, no way out. Edgar Allan Poe is the true grandfather of the murder mystery. Decades before Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, Poe gave us C. Auguste Dupin, a man able to solve mysteries through observation and deduction.

Actor David Ian Davies' telling of Poe's Gothic horror tale "The Tell-Tale Heart" captures this classic narrative of the unnamed murderer in all its exquisite vileness, its self-effacing insanity that poses rationality where none exists.

The poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first published on January 29, 1845, in the New York Evening Mirror. The poet read it publicly for the first time in a literary salon hosted by his friend Anne Lynch Botta .The work is noteworthy for its distinct, rhythmic, melodic sound, linguistic stylization, and a sense of horror. It tells of a mysterious visit that a speaking raven makes to a man in despair after the loss of his beloved, portraying the slow process of the unfortunate man descending into madness.

A vile affliction, the Red Death, a disease that kills rapidly with a seizure and bleeding from the pores. Torturing and scarring the land. But Prince Prospero is neither affected nor intimidated. More and more of his subjects die by the day. But still he fears not. He does however gather his friends and acquaintances, locking himself and his retinue away in a fortified abbey built with seclusion in mind. Time progresses and the Red Death is now at it's height. The Prince decides to host a masked ball to ease everyone's fears.

From the very beginning of its two-decade run on radio, Suspense was tops in thriller entertainment! Its first year on the air brought together stories from such outstanding masters of the genre as John Dickson Carr, Dashiell Hammett, and Edgar Allan Poe! Tune in to 20 tense classics from Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills - starring Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Susan Hayward, Richard Dix, Lou Merrill, Agnes Moorehead, Frank Readick, Alice Frost, and more.

The Fall of the House of Usher is a gothic novel by Edgar Allen Poe. The story tells of a mysterious house and an unnamed narrator's horrific experience with it.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he gets his own back, introducing 16 tales of detectives whose abilities rival that of the great Sherlock Holmes.

The eerie, haunted, and wildly tormented world of Edgar Allan Poe has enchanted, amazed, and horrified the universe.

The eerie, haunted, and wildly tormented world of Edgar Allan Poe has enchanted, amazed, and horrified the universe.

Después de sorprendernos con los cuatro títulos de la Saga Casasola y con los cuentos que conforman la Trilogía del Terror, Bernardo Esquinca nos entrega una novela que expande los límites y paisajes de su escritura. En un ejercicio audaz que es a la vez homenaje y acercamiento, Edgar Allan Poe, el padre del relato policiaco y del cuento de terror norteamericanos, se muestra en estas páginas como un ser humano, todavía lejos de la grandeza que lo consagraría y del abismo que lo consumiría.

Poe tells the story of a nervous character, alleged to be “crazy” refusing all claims. He believes that his disposition arises from a heightening of the senses: "Above all was the sense of hearing acute" (74). The narrator takes care of a rich old man whose diseased eye he becomes obsessed with. He becomes so obsessed with this EvilEye that eventually, he decides to kill the old man. But what and how he will do it, is a mystery for you to find out.

Dupins Intimfeind Gaston Morel hat eine tödliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem "Zirkel der Sieben". Sein Ableben reißt eine Lücke, die Dracula mit einem geeigneten neuen Anwärter zu füllen gedenkt. Die Kandidaten, die er im Visier hat, bringen allesamt besondere Talente mit, die sie unter Beweis stellen müssen, um den freien Posten im Zirkel zu erlangen. Der Gentleman-Dieb Arsène Lupin, die exotische Femme Fatale Mata Hari oder der Entfesselungskünstler Harry Houdini.

The St. Charles Players present multi-cast dramatizations of some of Edgar Allan Poe's greatest works, including The Black Cat, The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether, The Purloined Letter, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

London, 1886: When a stranger with peculiar head injuries is admitted to Bethlem Asylum, the doctors are confounded by his permanent inability to recover his memory. Without any form of identity and suffering bizarre nightmares, the stranger soon finds out that he is somehow linked to a deceased nobleman who bequeaths him a farm in the Southern African Cape Colonies. After an attempt is made on his life by a clandestine order of assassins, he flees to Cape Town.

Fantasy author Ken Altabef lends his unique voice talents to a modern reading of 13 classic tales (and six poems) by Edgar Allan Poe.

We are all driven by needs, desires, ambitions and many other forces. Life runs as normal with the obligatory ups and downs. In this volume such literary leviathans as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and many others provide tales from pens that seep with wisdom and worry.

Old Fred Parker feels helpless while watching his business fall prey to the sickest elements of a society in decay. One bleak and dreary afternoon, however, Fred's beloved Emporium is visited by an odd little man with strange old clothes and horrible ideas. Fred Parker is compelled to contemplate the difference between right and wrong as his life is transformed forever.

Chevalier Auguste Dupin, normalmente conocido como C. Auguste Dupin, es un detective de ficción creado por Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin hizo su primera aparición en ”Los crímenes de la calle Morgue” (1841) de Poe, considerado el primer relato policial. Vuelve a aparecer en “El misterio de Marie Rogêt” (1842) y en “La carta robada” (1844).

Una selección de los famosos relatos de misterio y de terror del gran maestro del género. Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, 1809 - Baltimore, 1849), reconocido como el maestro del relato corto, dejó un legado literario que se ha convertido en un punto de referencia constante para todas las artes. Su huella en la literatura fantástica y de terror, así como la literatura detectivesca es incuestionable e inspiró de manera decisiva a escritores de la talla de Melville, Baudelaire, Maupassant, Cortázar o Nabokov.