About the Book: Selected Short Stories and Poems: Edgar Allan Poe
From the cosmic terror of MS. Found in a Bottle and the bizarre aerial voyage of
Hans Pfaall, to the chilling scientific limbo of M. Valdemar and the
claustrophobic dread of The Premature Burial, Edgar Allan Poe probes the fragile
boundary between life and death. In Ligeia, Morella, and Berenice, love becomes
a fixation and identity refuses to die, while Eleonora offers a rare, dreamlike
meditation on memory and loss. Interwoven with these tales are some of Poes most
haunting poems. Annabel Lee and For Annie sing of love that survives death,
suspended between grief