Echoes of Madness

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.