October 15, 2019
The Best of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
‘Tis the season for scary stories.
When you say the name “Edgar Allan Poe,” it immediately conjures
thoughts of horror, darkness, and death.
Most people are familiar with a few of his works from middle or high
school (The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of
Amontillado). This collection includes some of his best known tales and also some lesser known stories. Poe’s characters are motivated by the same passions and emotions that have moved
people throughout history: jealousy, revenge,
unrequited love, greed, hate, fear, obsession, guilt. I wouldn't classify these stories as horror compared with the horror fiction being written today (look up splatterpunk in your library's catalog for the really gory stuff). Poe’s terrors tend to be psychological fears and phobias: buried alive, darkness, rats, imprisonment or being trapped, madness. Eleven of Poe’s short
stories are included in this collection – like any collection, some are better
than others.
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