title: Poe: Illustrated Tales of Mystery and Imagination
author:  Edgar Allan Poe 
description: Edgar Allan Poe widely recognized as one of the greatest American writers of short stories and poems and acknowledged as the inventor of detective stories, greatly influencing the modern thriller. A master in creating characters and plots that send shivers down your spine. His dark, gothic, and horrifying tales and poems of mystery and imagination now come to life in this book, featuring artworks by eminent international designers. POE contains nine short stories including his celebrated masterpieces, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death and The Black Cat as well as poems including The Bell and The Raven, certainly Poes best known work and arguably the most popular poem ever written. The familiar works and thrilling stories are heightened by elaborate illustrations by contemporary designers such as Usugrow, Casaramona, Jen Ray, Brian Ewing and others. This lavishly illustrated hardcover volume is sure to enthrall Poes most rabid fan and arouse the interest of those who are reading Poe for the first time.
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  Mystery Writers of America Presents
  
  
  
  
  
  In the Shadow of the Master
  
  
  
  
  
  Edited by Michael Connelly
  
  
  
  
  
  Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe and Essays by Jeffery Deaver, Nelson DeMille,
  Tess Gerritsen, Sue Grafton, Stephen King, Laura Lippman, Lisa Scottoline, and
  Thirteen Others
  
  
  
  
  
  Illustrations by Harry Clarke
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [About Edgar Allan Poe](frontmatter01_split_000.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [About the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award](frontmatter02.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [About the Illustrator](frontmatter03.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [What Poe Hath Wrought—Michael Connelly](frontmatter04.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [A Descent into the Maelström—Edgar Allan Poe](chapter01_split_000.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [On Edgar Allan Poe—T. Jefferson Parker](chapter02.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Cask of Amontilladom—Edgar Allan Poe](chapter03_split_000.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Under the Covers with Fortunato and Montresor—Jan Burke](chapter04.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Curse of Amontillado