Publisher's Synopsis
Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
Here is a sampling, the second volume in a reprint of a famous edition of the works of Poe, a driven, passionate, difficult, often desperate man -- "three-fifths of him genius," as Lowell said, and three fifths is more than most of the rest of us can claim or will ever have claimed for us.
This volume includes "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Purloined Letter," "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," "William Wilson," and many others.
