Cover of Selections from the Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Silence / William Wilson)
Gothic FictionHorrorCircus & Carnival

Selections from the Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Silence / William Wilson)

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  • 1908 first published
  • 343 pages
  • 4 editions
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Edgar Allan Poe's Selections from the Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Silence / William Wilson) (1908) is a gothic fiction and horror story collection. It takes readers to Lofoten and Norway in Carnival. Characters include William Wilson, Demon and Father Time. Key subjects include Aristocracy, Silence, Fear and pendulums.

It has been published in 4 editions.

At about 343 pages, most readers finish it in 6–7 hours.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Characters

Subjects

  • Aristocracy
  • Silence
  • American Horror tales
  • American Short stories
  • Children's fiction
  • Fear
  • Horror
  • Horror stories
  • Pendulums
  • Spanish Inquisition
  • Abbeys
  • Daggers
  • Gothic fiction
  • Hematidrosis
  • Horror fiction
  • Horror tales

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Who wrote Selections from the Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Silence / William Wilson)?

Selections from the Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Silence / William Wilson) was written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1908.

What genre is Selections from the Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Silence / William Wilson)?

It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction, Horror, Circus & Carnival and Dragon Fiction.

How long is Selections from the Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Silence / William Wilson)?

The median edition has 343 pages, about 6–7 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

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