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Cargando... The Pit and the Pendulum: The Essential Poepor Edgar Allan Poe
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I love Edgar Allan Poe. I think he is one of the best horror writers ever. A man is sentenced to death by a jury. He is thrown into a dark dungeon where he begins being tortured. No gore is described in this tale, it's more of a psychological suspense where the narrator frees himself from one destruction only to find himself in another. The dungeon is dark at first, and he narrowly escapes plummeting to his death in a well, only to awake tied to a cot, with enough illumination to see a sharp pendulum slowly lowering from the ceiling right to his heart. My heart was beating quickly while reading this, great suspense, great horror. A definite reread. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
For the 200th anniversary of his birth, a collection from the master of heart-stopping horror Edgar Allan Poe is not only the finest, most terrifying writer of Gothic tales ever to have lived, he also wrote extraordinary poems and, with 'The Murders on the Rue Morgue', invented the detective story, paving the way for Sherlock Holmes. In this new collection, Poe's genius its full breadth. In 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and other stories of horror - including terrifying classics like 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Black Cat' - Poe writes of the torments of ingenious, malevolent persecutors and of a mind's own sicking, madness, while in the mournful 'The Raven' and other poems, his writing is beautiful, elegiac and filled with dread. Selected and introduced by Peter Ackroyd (author of London- The Biographyand Poe- A Life Cut Short), with a cover design by the artist Harland Miller (who has previously curated an exhibition of contemporary artists' responses to Poe), The Pit and the Pendulumis a collection of works of a dark and brilliant genius. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I don't like this type of story, so it's too boring to me. But as the mysterious black and large rats show, there are very unique character in this, and they make srory more fantastic. This book also have other short stories concerning about horror, then you would be able to enjoy! ( )