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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories
  • Published: 29 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529954333
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $45.00

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories

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7 Nov 2023
Hardback
29 July 2025
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3 Feb 2011
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1 Dec 2010
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1 July 2010
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A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Poe's most macabre and irresistible stories with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Edgar Allan Poe's stories uncover the deeply unnerving strangeness lurking within us all. His genius for horror and suspense went on to influence the world, from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of his best short stories contains the well-known works 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart' alongside a wide range of delightfully terrifying tales to unsettle and enthrall.

This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.
  • Published: 29 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529954333
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Boston and orphaned at an early age. Taken in by a couple from Richmond, Virginia, he spent a semester at the University of Virginia but could not afford to stay longer. After joining the Army and matriculating as a cadet, he started his literary career with the anonymous publication of Tamerlane and Other Poems, before working as a literary critic. His life was dotted with scandals, such as purposefully getting himself court-martialled to ensure dismissal from the Army, being discharged from his job at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond after being found drunk by his boss, and secretly marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia (listed twenty-one on the marriage certificate). His work took him to both New York City and Baltimore, where he died at the age of forty, two years after Virginia.
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The Tell-Tale Heart
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
Hop-Frog
The Fall of the House of Usher (TV Tie-in Edition)
The Edgar Allan Poe BBC Radio Collection
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Praise for The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories

Poe's work as a whole is a series of haunting improvisations on themes from the macabre that are hard to categorise, dazzlingly original and posthumously influential on an extraordinary range of writers from Baudelaire and RL Stevenson to Yeats, Wilde and Borges

Observer

His work continues to enthral. His greatest tales (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum) radiate a dark humour and mockery that strike an oddly modern note

Sunday Times

If genius is an exceptional capacity for imaginative creation, Poe had it in spades

Daily Mail

His reputation as a master of the grotesque and macabre has veiled the real cause of his fame: an astonishing mastery of language and literary technique which made Arthur Ransome, himself no mean story technician and a considerable literary critic, liken his stories to rare coloured goblets or fantastic metalwork

Independent