ARGONAUT BOOKS

Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales are classics of horror fiction, and created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. This selection places the most popular against travel narrative, essays, and political satires. Reviews I picked up The Pit and The Pendulum and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, a collection which just got a convenient small hardcover reprint from Oxford University Press.John DeNardo, Kirkus ReviewsWith scholarly annotations and bibliography, an informative introduction, and useful chronology, Oxford University...Read More