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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  Nevermore...
  
  
  Eager to start their life together, historian Vickie Preston and Special Agent
  Griffin Pryce take a detour en route to their new home in Virginia and stop
  for a visit in Baltimore. But their romantic weekend is interrupted when a
  popular author is found dead in the basement of an Edgar Allan Poe–themed
  restaurant. Because of the mysterious circumstances surrounding the corpse,
  the FBI’s Krewe of Hunters paranormal team is invited to investigate. As more
  bizarre deaths occur, Vickie and Griffin are drawn into a case that has
  disturbing echoes of Poe’s great works, bringing the horrors of his fiction to
  life.
  
  
  The restaurant is headquarters to scholars and fans, and any of them could be
  a merciless killer. Except there’s also something reaching out from beyond the
  grave. The late, great Edgar Allan Poe himself is appearing to Vickie in
  dreams and visions with cryptic information abou