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Edgar Allan Poe

1809–1849

A master of mystery and the macabre, he helped shape the modern detective story while giving classic Gothic fiction some of its darkest, most unforgettable images. His poems and tales, including "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart," still feel vivid, eerie, and surprisingly modern.

39 Audiobooks

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Masque of the Red Death

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Cask of Amontillado

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition

by Edgar Allan Poe

Eureka: A Prose Poem

by Edgar Allan Poe

Le Corbeau = The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven, and The Philosophy of Composition

by Edgar Allan Poe

Poemas

by Edgar Allan Poe

A Dream within a Dream

by Edgar Allan Poe

Histoires extraordinaires

by Edgar Allan Poe

Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires

by Edgar Allan Poe

Selections from Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

Cuentos Clásicos del Norte, Primera Serie

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Bells, and Other Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

First Project Gutenberg Collection of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

Histoires grotesques et sérieuses

by Edgar Allan Poe

Stories of Intellect

by Rebecca Harding Davis, Thomas De Quincey, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

Ιστορίες αλλόκοτες

by Edgar Allan Poe

Derniers Contes

by Edgar Allan Poe

Ligeia und andere Novellen; Sieben Gedichte

by Edgar Allan Poe

The Conchologist's First Book

by Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Brown

La Falo de Uŝero-Domo

by Edgar Allan Poe

Le scarabée d'or

by Edgar Allan Poe

La Murdoj de Kadavrejo-Strato

by Edgar Allan Poe

Eureka

by Edgar Allan Poe

Valtameren salaisuus

by Edgar Allan Poe

Ses noveloj el "Rakontoj de mistero kaj imago"

by Edgar Allan Poe

La Puto kaj la Pendolo: Rakonto el la Hispana Inkvizicio

by Edgar Allan Poe

About the author

Born in Boston in 1809, he became one of the defining voices of 19th-century American literature. He wrote poems, short stories, literary criticism, and essays, and is especially remembered for his talent for psychological tension, haunting atmosphere, and tightly built plots.

His best-known works include The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue. That last story is often credited as an early foundation of detective fiction, showing how his imagination reached beyond horror into forms that would influence whole genres.

His life was marked by instability and personal loss, and he died in Baltimore in 1849 at the age of 40. Even so, his writing has had an extraordinary afterlife, inspiring generations of readers and writers with its music, suspense, and sense that the strange may be hiding just beneath ordinary life.