Poe's Tales of Mystery and Terror Author:Edgar Allan Poe "Larger type for easy reading" — includes — The Fall of the House of Usher — The Masque of the Red Death — The Cask of Amontillado — The Pit and the Pendulum — The Gold-Bug — The Murders in the Rue Morgue — The Mystery of Marie Roget — The Purloined Letter — Edgar Allan Poe, born in Bostin in 1809, lived only 40 years - many of them desperately unhappy ye... more »ars at that - but in his short time he created a body of stories and poems that are still exciting and wonderful to read.« less