Name: The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781409059882

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of all his short stories and novellas contains well-known tales 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart' alongside hidden gems that both unsettle and enthrall the reader.

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories

The Fall of the House of Usher

Give me gothic literature or give me death. 

Yetta Pahling

miya

Femke

The Pit and the Pendulum & Other Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Classic Fiction)

Laura Dobie

Dimitris Papastergiou

Well, what can I say. Poe can create such a scary, creepy atmosphere that there's no need for anyone to be violently murdered or mysteriously disappeared in his stories. He can make your spine tingle with a single paragraph with just the way he writes. 

This story, is about a man going to see his ill friend in a house that's too... alive, dare I say. And then creepy stuff happen all over the place. Every single description of the house is hands down the best description of any haunted house you'll read in your life. Ever. None can describe as dark and gritty as Poe. Or... oh well, if anyone can, recommend me some stuff to read and I'll think about it. 

Gothic atmosphere and darkness everywhere. Now I just need to read more Poe stories. Good thing I haven't read everything by him yet.

Mahdis Riazikhah

run on sentences, writing es difficult to follow at times.

Mabel Palomera

Rudyard Kipling

"Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!" A classic story from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, adapted and illustrated by award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney, this is the tale of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a fearless young mongoose. Soon after a flood washes Rikki into the garden of an English family, he comes face-to-face with Nag and Nagaina, two giant cobras. The snakes are willing to attack Rikki, and even the human family who lives there, to claim the garden and house for themselves. But they do not count on the heart and pride of the brave little mongoose.

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Missy Zuber 

For some reason I thought the cobras killed Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.

aaliyah

Sophia De La Garza

Read for my lit class. Not my favorite Poe short story, but still set the mood for the fall. 
Rating:: 3 out of 5 stars.

Maribel González

Una historia oscura, que me ha intrigado a pesar de lo breve y me ha dejado con ganas de conocer más a Poe.

Ren Christina

Very descriptive. Also my first time reading Poe, so it was quite exciting. Look forward to reading more of his writing in the future.

Анастасия Розова

*Read for class.

2.25/5

The short story itself was alright, but the sentences of Poe, JFC. The length of them was needlessly enormous, and since English is not my native language, it was pretty difficult not to loose train of though.

Overall, nothing too genius. Just an ordinary mystical story. Maybe it's due to the fact that such a genre is not new to me. Or maybe it's the writing style that threw me off.

I also had conflicted feelings about Poe's biography and the fact that it was hinted that his twin-sister is his wife/lover. Ugh.

This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In the Tell Tale Heart, a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as The Pit and the Pendulum and the Cask of Amontillado explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate.

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories

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