Echoes of Madness: Twenty Tales Terror

Plunge into the abyss of the human psyche with Echoes of Madness, an essential collection from the master of American horror-Edgar Allan Poe.Twenty of Poe's most gripping masterpieces, exploring the line between sanity and madness, the living and the dead, reason and irresistible impulse.The Pit and the Pendulum - Mechanical doom in the Inquisition's dungeons.The Black Cat - Cruelty summons retribution that won't stay buried.The Fall of the House of Usher - A crumbling home mirrors its inhabitants' madness.The Masque of the Red Death - Death cannot be outwitted, even behind masked revelry.The Cask of Amontillado - Cold revenge sealed forever in catacomb darkness.The Tell-Tale Heart - A crime betrayed by a guilty conscience.The Raven - A grieving scholar tormented by a bird that knows only "Nevermore."Berenice - Obsession leads to a horrifying violation of the grave.Ligeia - A dying woman's will fights to reclaim life through another body.The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Hypnotism at the threshold of death.Morella - A mother's spirit returns in her daughter.Hop-Frog - A jester exacts fiery justice on a tyrannical court.Metzengerstein - A cursed feud ends in apocalyptic flames.The Man of the Crowd - Following a stranger reveals the terror of anonymity.Never Bet the Devil Your Head - A fatal wager with the infernal.The Oblong Box - A sea voyage hides a grim secret.The Tale of the Ragged Mountains - Visions that defy time and reality.The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion - Two souls discuss the apocalypse.The Imp of the Perverse - The irresistible urge to self-destruction.Shadow: A Parable - Death joins a feast, casting an eternal pall.Open this book, and let the echoes begin. They may never stop.

Pagina's: 284, Paperback, Chaos Gremlin Publishing