The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales: Edgar Poe

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

`... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...`

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`.

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