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Short Stories (Cask of Amontillado / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart) vs The Annotated tales of Edgar Allan Poe: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Short Stories (Cask of Amontillado / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart) Short Stories (Cask of Amontillado / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart) Edgar Allan Poe · 1998 ★★★★☆ 3.8 156 pages · ≈ 2 h 53 m · Moderate Find on Amazon
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Cover of The Annotated tales of Edgar Allan Poe The Annotated tales of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe · 1981 ★★★★☆ 4.3 684 pages · ≈ 12 h 40 m · Moderate Find on Amazon

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Short Stories (Cask of Amontillado / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart)The Annotated tales of Edgar Allan PoeEnjoymentDifficultyInfluencePopularityClassic
First-person NarrativeCrime FictionHomicideGothic fictionAmerican Horror talesHorror stories