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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Locked doors, bricked-up alcoves and premature burial close in on Poe's narrators as they, like their victims, are cut off from light, air and human society. The "disordered chambers" of the author's mind resonate with archetypal, if extreme, psychological states; these 46 tales also present the incurable hoaxer and teller of excessively tal...  more »l tales, a master of this difficult genre.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780460870405
ISBN-10: 0460870408
Publication Date: 9/20/1990
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: Phoenix Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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John L. reviewed Tales of Mystery and Imagination on 2/17/2007 + 11 more book reviews

Great selection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories.

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Judith L. (JML) - , reviewed Tales of Mystery and Imagination on 4/5/2006 + 153 more book reviews

These are all the stories I remember, creepy Poe at his best. Even now I need to read these in the daylight or I'll have a bad dream, like the Pit and the Pendulum with the blade getting closer and closer. Or the Premature Burial, being buried alive.

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