The collected tales of America’s foremost master of mystery and creator of the modern detective story Edgar Allan Poe. This outstanding collection of Poe's prose includes widely acknowledged classics such as "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Black Cat" and many others. Poe’s tales are his chief contribution to the literature of the world. His morbid, mysterious characters lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles have captured the public imagination for centuries.