The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection

edgar allan poe

Universally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe's dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre.

Now, Caedmon Audio presents a classic collection of Poe's most terrifying tales performed by two of the most brilliant interpreters of his work ever to be recorded: Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone.

Between them, they perform 20 of Poe's chilling stories and poems, creating an unforgettably intense listening experience.

CD #1 read by Basil Rathbone
To -- (1:48)
Alone (1:01)
The City in the Sea (3:01)
The Fall of the House of Usher (22:57)
The Haunted Palace (2:15)
The Pit and the Pendulum (30:27)

CD #2 read by Basil Rathbone
The Masque of the Red Death (16:25)
The Tell-Tale Heart (13:40)
The Black Cat (25:57)

CD #3 read by Basil Rathbone
The Raven (8:15)
The Facts of the Case of M. Valdemar (16:15)
The Cask of Amontillado (15:45)
The Bells (4:02)
Annabel Lee (2:03)
Eldorado (0:39)

CD #4 read by Vincent Price
Ligeia (47:03)
The Imp of the Perverse (14:06)
Morella (14:45)

CD #5 read by Vincent Price
Berenice (23:50)
The Gold Bug (53:50)

Genres horrorclassicspoetryaudiobookshort storiesfictionmysterygothicliteraturethriller

5 pages, Audio CD

First published October 1,2000

This edition

Format: 5 pages, Audio CD
Published: October 1, 2000 by Harper Audio
ISBN: 9780694524198
ASIN: 0694524190
Language: English

About the author

edgar allan poe

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer's oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America's first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe's reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe's stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author's name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe's sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls' school. Within three years of Poe's birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe's siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe's handwriting on the backs of Allan's ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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