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Tales of Terror and Fantasy (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart) vs The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe in Six Volumes - Vol. I - Tales of Imagination: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Tales of Terror and Fantasy (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart) Tales of Terror and Fantasy (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart) Edgar Allan Poe · 1971 ★★★★☆ 3.8 150 pages · ≈ 2 h 47 m · Moderate Find on Amazon
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Cover of The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe in Six Volumes - Vol. I - Tales of Imagination The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe in Six Volumes - Vol. I - Tales of Imagination Edgar Allan Poe 287 pages · ≈ 5 h 19 m · Moderate Find on Amazon

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Tales of Terror and Fantasy (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart)The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe in Six Volumes - Vol. I - Tales of ImaginationDifficultyInfluencePopularity
First-person NarrativeCrime FictionHomicideGothic fictionAmerican Horror talesCrime