The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

Resumen del libro

Readers will recognize their favorite horror stories in the collection "The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings." Edgar Allen Poe was a master of suspense, horror, and mystery, and his stories, while truly terrifying, are also delightfully entertaining.
In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator has just killed a man and buried him under his floor.
As he sits right above the body, he begins to hear the dead mans heart thumping loudly in his ears.
Guilt and paranoia flood the narrator, and the audience experiences the narrators plunge into madness as his fears begin to manifest.
Many of Poes other popular works are included in the anthology, such as "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Cask of Amontillado." Murder is a theme in both the works, though Poe executes his characters in decidedly different ways.
Still, madness, anger, and retribution all make their way into the majority of Poes works.
Also in the collection are select poems such as "Lenore" and "The Raven." Both stories tell tales of death and lost love about two different women named Lenore; Poes poems mourn these characters, making his words even

Biografía del autor

Nació en Boston en 1809. Quedó huérfano a los tres años. La tradición sureña, con sus relatos de aparecidos, cementerios y cadáveres, ofreció un vasto repertorio sobrenatural a este maestro del cuento breve, que en 1814 inauguró el género policial con Los crímenes de la calle Morgue. De Poe, Libros del Zorro Rojo ha publicado también El gato negro y otros relatos de terror y Edgar Allan Poe, Cuentos y poemas.