Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from
the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and fantasy
were his forte and in later life he responded to the dark stimulus
of Poe's gothic tales with gleeful appreciation of their macabre
and otherworldly qualities, claiming afterwards that he had quite
succeeded in frightening himself! For lovers of the thrilling and
chilling, young and old, Poe's sensational stories cannot fail to
hit the spot. This collection contains the best of his prose works,
including of course the well-known masterpieces 'The Fall of the
House of Usher' (the ultimate haunted house story), 'The Pit and
the Pendulum', 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Murders in the Rue
Morgue' (the very first detective story in fiction). First
published in 1935 it has been redesigned, re-typeset and
republished in a handsome edition which features all Rackham's
original colour and black and white illustrations. A perfect gift -
though not for the faint-hearted!
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