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Tales of Terror

By: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: David Thorn, Bruce Blau
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American poet, critic, and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe is universally recognized for his cultivation of the macabre in fiction. His stories are characterized by an original kind of supernatural horror, often using the awareness of death as a catalyzing force in its own right. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth and intense imagery, made vivid through his musical language and hypnotic rhythms, which are especially captivating when heard aloud.

This special audio collection features some of Poe's best-known stories, including "The Tell Tale Heart", "Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", "Hop Frog", "Murders in the Rue Morgue", "Masque of the Red Death", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "Fall of the House of Usher", "The Black Cat", and "The Cask of Amontillado".

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"Poe constantly and inevitably produced magic where his greatest contemporaries produced only beauty." (George Bernard Shaw)

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Good narration but he went too french I couldnt even underdtsnd him. also bad audio mixing. Poe is great though

Narrator went full french

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This was a good book, the intro, etc sounded like they were from a warped school video, or something :)
Actually stories were clear, and well done

Good

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the reader was hard to follow in the 1st part bad recording or accent

it's Poe but not as you know it

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