The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe

EDGAR ALLAN POE
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
AND OTHER WRITINGS EDITED BY DAVID GALLOWAY

And much of Madness and more of Sin
And Horror the Soul of the Plot

The lines from 'Ligeia' epitomise the familiar
Poe, the arch-priest of Gothic horror, author of
'The Masque of the Red Death' and 'The Pit and
the Pendulum'. That Poe, unquestioned master
of 'the Grotesque and Arabesque', is fully represented here, but the volume also includes
generous selections from his poetry and critical
writings. Together they amount to a portrait of
a complex personality, that of a conscious
aesthete, the most exotic of American writers,
who was at the same time keenly engaged in an astonishing variety of interests. Nor are the
'Grotesque' tales the simple manipulations of
terror that they seem; David Galloway's
introduction reveals their author as a profoundly serious writer, whose investigations
of extreme states of consciousness have a
particular relevance for our time.

Originally published under the title Selected Writings

Genres: Classics - Horror - Short Stories - Essays - Poems - Gothic - Mystery
Condition: Good*
Published: First published 1967. This edition published 1987 by Penguin Classics.
Pages: 520
ISBN: 0140432914
Weight: 255g
*Some age spots to pages.