1992 Edgar Allan Poe The Complete Stories Vintage Classic Fiction Book

The collection demonstrates the remarkable breadth of Poe's imagination and his enduring influence upon modern literature. His explorations of madness, guilt, premature burial, obsession, death and the supernatural helped define the Gothic and macabre tradition, while C. Auguste Dupin and the tales of analytical detection provided an important foundation for the modern detective story. This Everyman's Library edition includes a substantial introduction by John Seelye, together with a select bibliography and chronology, providing useful literary and biographical context for Poe's work and its place within nineteenth-century American literature.