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Loading... Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allan Poe
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This book had 5 short stories. My favorite story was 'William Willson' He, but his name was not William Willson, met a same name man at school. Both of them are alike and William1 was afraid of William2. Wiliiam1 quited school and went to a lot of places. But Wiliiam2 was almost always near William1. At last William1 tried to kill William2. Another stories werećalso exciting for me to read so I read this early. (  )nyakyakyanya | Oct 12, 2008 |   This collection of stories and poems defines what psychological terror, the true guts of horror without gore and blood, really is. In the Cask of Amontillado, we see something so subtly horrible, it doesn't shock us all at once, it takes time. Brick by brick. Beautiful work of art! ( )stpnwlf | Jul 17, 2007 | A classic. I love msot of Poe's stories, and their wonderful creepy atmosphere. (  )isiswardrobe | Mar 19, 2006 | Magnificent illustrations by Harry Clarke. crowolf | Oct 8, 2005 | 0.054 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0861366522, Hardcover)Award-winning fantasy illustrator Gary Kelley writes, "I have selected three of Edgar Allan Poe's best short stories.... I chose 'The Fall of the House of Usher' for its classic Gothic images and its dark, melancholic central characters, including the house itself. 'The Black Cat' is ... appealing to me for its use of mystery and foreboding that takes us to a horrifying climax. 'The Cask of Amontillado' ... my personal favorite, [is] a simple narrative of revenge set in the contrasting worlds of carnival and catacomb." Click on the book's cover for a closer look, but the reproduction doesn't really do justice to the richness of color in Kelley's shadowy, atmospheric paintings. (The cat's eye is green, and its tongue is pink.) This gorgeous edition has 20 full- and double-page paintings, including a melancholy portrait of Poe; each page of text is surrounded by subtle decorative frames. The images of Roderick and Madeleine Usher are especially effective.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:51 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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