Edgar Allan Poe

Discover the author who shaped the world of horror as we know it. One of ten pocket size paperbacks from Macmillan Collector's Library celebrating the art of the short story.

Murder and mayhem abound in three suspenseful stories by Edgar Allan Poe, whose writing left a lasting impact on the gothic and horror genres. On board a ship, a man watches on as his old friend appears increasingly disturbed. What luggage could be so precious that Cornelius Wyatt would leave it in a locked cabin? "The Oblong Box" is a masterclass in mystery writing. In "The Cask of Amontillado," Italian carnival festivities are the perfect distraction for a man driven to bleak and bloody revenge. One of the earliest examples of the classic detective story is "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," a tale that is as violent as it is puzzling. Can Parisian detective Auguste Dupin figure out who killed Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter one July night?

This series of pocket-sized paperbacks celebrates the art of the short story and marks Macmillan Collector's Library's 10th anniversary. Each contains a curated selection of short stories from a literary giant: Katherine Mansfield, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Alice Dunbar Nelson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Rabindranath Tagore.