Tales of Mystery and Imagination (The Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpieces)

304 pp. 8vo. Navy blue faux leather boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrations reproduced from the Harry Clarke illustrations that originally appeared in the 1919 George Harrap edition of this work. Tales of Mystery & Imagination (often rendered as Tales of Mystery and Imagination) is a popular title for posthumous compilations of writings by American author, essayist and poet Edgar Allan Poe and was the first complete collection of his works specifically restricting itself to his suspenseful and related tales. Includes: TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE: King Pest; Ms. Found in a Bottle; Silence - A Fable; Berenice; William Wilson; Ligeia; The Assignation; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; TALES OF HORROR AND SUSPENSE: The Pit and the Pendulum; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Cask of Amontillado; A Descent into the Maelstrom; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Black Cat; The Masque of the Red Death; TALES OF RATIOCINATION: The Gold Bug; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Purloined Letter.