Some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written are to be found in this collection of Poe`s work, ranging from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, and all with the quality of the grotesque that defined Poe`s writing. `The Tell-Tale Heart` and `The Fall of the House of Usher` are key works in the horror canon, while in the `The Murders in the Rue Morgue` and `The Mystery of Marie Roget` we find the origins of modern detective fiction.