title: Tales of Terror from Edgar Allan Poe
author:  Edgar Allan Poe 
description: Gr. 6-9. This collection includes six of Poe's most famous tales, unabridged: "The Masque of Red Death," "The Black Cat," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Fall of the House of Usher." In the introduction, McCurdy discusses of Poe's life and remarks on the darkness of Poe's nature, reflected in his work, and the physical darkness of his world after sundown, reflected in the illustrations. The 18 full-page, black-and-white scratchboard-style pictures are suitably dramatic and often macabre. This handsome volume, to be accompanied by a CD that features readings of four of the tales, offers a good introduction to Poe's fiction. <i>Carolyn Phelan</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
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  # The Tale of Terror
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Edith Birkhead
  
  
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  PREFACE
  
  
  CHAPTER I—INTRODUCTORY.
  
  
  CHAPTER II—THE BEGINNINGS OF GOTHIC ROMANCE.
  
  
  CHAPTER III—“THE NOVEL OF SUSPENSE.” MRS.
  
  
  RADCLIFFE.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV—THE NOVEL OF TERROR. LEWIS AND MATURIN.
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER V—THE ORIENTAL TALE OF TERROR. BECKFORD.
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER VI—GODWIN AND THE ROSICRUCIAN NOVEL.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII—SATIRES ON THE NOVEL OF TERROR.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII—SCOTT AND THE NOVEL OF TERROR.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX—LATER DEVELOPMENTS OF THE TALE OF
  
  
  TERROR.
  
  
  CHAPTER X—SHORT TALES OF TERROR.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI—AMERICAN TALES OF TERROR.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII—CONCLUSION.
  
  
  NOTES:
  
  
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  THE TALE OF TERROR
  
  
  A Study of the Gothic Romance
  
  
  by
  
  
  EDITH BIRKHEAD M.A.
  
  
  Assistant Lecturer in English Literature in the University of
  
  
  Bristol F