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Tales of Mystery and Imagination

TitleTales of Mystery and Imagination

AuthorEdgar A. Poe

Editing placeLondon

EditorialFolio Society

Year1957

IllustratorMichael Ayrton

Edition typeAnthology (English)

Translator

LanguageEnglish

LibraryF.G.M.

Volumes1

Number of pages302

Size (in cms)23 x 15

Works included
A Descent into the Maelström
Berenice
King Pest. A Tale Containing an Allegory
Life in Death (The Oval Portrait)
Ligeia
Metzengerstein
Morella
MS. Found in a Bottle
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Gold-Bug
The Masque of the Red Death
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget. A Sequel to ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Premature Burial
The Purloined Letter
The Tell-Tale Heart
William Wilson

Works illustrated
A Descent into the Maelström
Frontispiece
Ligeia
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Gold-Bug
The Masque of the Red Death
The Pit and the Pendulum
William Wilson

Bibliographic referencesPOLLIN 128 (501)

DescriptionAnthology of 21 tales edited by Herbert van Thal and illustrated with the reproduction of 10 black and white monotypes by Michael Ayrton (including a portrait of Poe).
"Introduction" by Herbet van Thal.
«As a story-teller Poe was something of a Jekyll and Hyde: on the one hand he was the inventor of the realistic detective story, in which the solution depends on careful reasoning and deduction, on the other the creator of a strange world of supernatural horror, macabre and fearful in its imagining. This collection of twenty-one stories -many of them famous, but some comparatively unknown- brilliantly reflects the two sides of his genius, the nightmare terror of The Pit and the Pendulum and charnel horror in King Pest contrasting sharply with the clear logic of the immortal Dupin in The Murder in the Rue Morgue and the mystery of Purloined Letter. Flawless in technique, these stories are the work of a master whose skill in creating atmosphere has never been surpassed» (jacket flap).
Black hardcover binding with silver title and image; printed and bound by Richard Clay and Company, Ltd. (Bungay, Suffolk). It keeps the color dust jacket and bookplate of Marie Louise and Samuel Robert Rosenthal.

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