title: Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Works, Deluxe Edition
author:  Edgar Allan Poe 
description: He revolutionized the horror tale, giving it psychological insight and a consistent tone and atmosphere; he invented the modern detective story; he wrote some of the world's best-known lyric poetry and a major novella of the fantastic; he impressed such writers as <a href="/exec/obidos/Author=Baudelaire%2C%20Charles/${0}">Baudelaire</a>, <a href="/exec/obidos/Author=Mallarme%2C%20Stephane/${0}">Mallarme</a> and <a href="/exec/obidos/Author=Borges%2C%20Jorge/${0}">Borges</a>. If it's been a while since you read any Edgar A. Poe (he never used "Allan"), you've probably forgotten how terrific he is. And some of his best work is in his lesser-known stories, such as "The Imp of the Perverse" and "A Descent into the Maelstrom." In short, what are you waiting for?
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  Since its foundation in 1945 by a select group of authors from the crime-
  writing fraternity, the Mystery Writers of America has become a nationwide
  organization with a membership of more than seven hundred professional and
  part-time writers, publishers, editors, critics, mystery scholars, and
  readers. From the very beginning, one of the goals of MWA has been to promote
  even better and more ambitious work in the future by honoring excellence
  within the field. The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, given in the spring of each year
  in categories including Best Novel, Best First Novel, Best Short Story, are
  treasured by the winners, since there can be no greater honor for any writer
  than to have his work adjudged the best by his peers.
  
  
  
  
  
  Every year, too, MWA sponsors an anthology comprised of stories that are
  donated without recompense for the benefit of the organization by its members.
  This new volume, the thirty-third annual collection, 