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Reprint. Hard cover 16mo ( 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches) in red decorated cloth blocked with illustration featuring ravens and foliage, along with titles in dark gray, 119 pp. plus 1 p. publisher's ad for the series, containing 48 titles. CONDITION: Fine, like new. This anthology contains seven classic tales of the mysterious and macabre, including the "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Black Cat," "Ligeia," (an example of early supernatural fiction), "The Cask of Amontillado," The Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Tell-Tale Heart." The allegorical title story, first published in 1842, is set in a fantasy land reminiscent of Boccacio's Decameron, in which the Prince Prospero and a group of revelers shelter themselves within the walls of a "castellated abbey" during a plague, the so-called "red death." They conduct a masked ball in a series of rooms decorated with symbolic colors of stained glass, defying death for pleasure until the clock strikes...Boston-born AUTHOR, Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) spent formative years in England after the death of both his parents. Many have inspected his unusual life as an orphan, a failed student, and disgraced West Point cadet, to find intimations of the famously macabre nature of his later stories and poetry.
Ref: FICT19 9347
$30.00