This Signet Classic edition contains Poe's macabre stories of men and women caught up by mysterious or supematural forces. FOURTEEN TALES OF TERROR, IMAGINATION, AND SUSPENSE: THE BALLOON-HOAX • ms FOUND IN A BOTTLE • A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM • THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE • THE PURLOINED LETTER • THE BLACK CAT • THE FALL OF THE HOOSE OF USHER • THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM • THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH • THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO • THE ASSIGNATION • THE TELL-TALE HEART • DIDDLING • THE THAT WAS USED UP AND POE'S ONLY FULL-LENGTH NOVEL, NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM herewith making its first appearance in a paperback selection of the celebrated author's work. With an Aftertuord by R. P Blackmur --back cover