Edgar Allan Poe

Miten universumi syntyi, ja mikä on sen lopullinen päämäärä? Mitä lakeja sen kehitys noudattaa, ja miten on mahdollista, että aineeton ihmismieli kykenee tietämään nämä aineellista todellisuutta hallitsevat lait? Suuria kysymyksiä, jotka huimaavat miltei kenen tahansa päätä – paitsi Edgar Allan Poen (1809–1849), kauhukertomusten mestarin ja salapoliisifiktion pioneerin, jonka viimeiseksi jäänyt teos Heureka on kaikilla mittareilla mitattuna todellinen kummajainen.Tähtitieteellisen tutkielman, metafyysisen traktaatin ja filosofisen kiistakirjoituksen välimaastossa taiteilevassa kirjoituksessaan Poe selittää maailmankaikkeuden rakenteen, valaisee jumalallisen tahdon olemusta, ratkaisee sielun ja aineen näennäisen ristiriidan ja esittää häkellyttävän omintakeisen argumentin kuolemanjälkeisen elämän puolesta. Puhtaasta abstraktiosta ei silti ole kysymys: kaiken läpi paistaa surumielinen yritys ylittää ja sovittaa inhimillisen olemassaolon perimmäinen ja voittamaton traagisuus. Heureka on nojatuolikosmologiaa kylmähermoisille runosieluille, jotka eivät pelkää kohdata oman kuolevaisuutensa – tai kuolemattomuutensa – vääjäämätöntä totuutta.Teoksen on suomentanut FT Hannu Poutiainen.

The timeless, genre-defying classics Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Raven & Other Writings are now available together in this bone-chilling paperback boxed set.In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories, the relationship between a well-respected doctor and a violent criminal is more shocking than anyone could guess in this unholy tale of a repressed man giving himself over wholly to the worst of his vices and shame. Also, two medical students turn to grave robbing in “The Body Snatcher” and a man wishes on a cursed bottle in “The Bottle Imp.” In Dracula, young English lawyer Jonathan Harker’s trip to Romania to meet with Count Dracula sets off a chain of events that threaten the lives of his friends, including his fiancée, Mina. With the help of vampire expert Professor Van Helsing, can Jonathan, Mina, and their friends defeat their sinister foe? In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein is an aspiring scientist whose obsession with the idea of creating life leads him to animate a humanoid figure he crafted from corpses. Confronted with the horror of what he’s created, Frankenstein abandons his monster—who in turn vows revenge. In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories, schoolteacher Ichabod Crane flees from the Headless Horseman, Ichabod Crane sleeps for twenty years to wake to a changed world, and more. The titular Phantom of the Opera hides from the world while terrorizing the Paris Opera House and its star, beautiful soprano Christine Daaé, in The Phantom of the Opera. In The Raven & Other Writings, murder and grief dominate the eerie stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe. This deliciously eerie paperback boxed set includes: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories Dracula Frankenstein The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories The Phantom of the Opera The Raven & Other Writings

The timeless, genre-defying classics Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Raven & Other Writings are now available together in this bone-chilling hardcover boxed set.In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories, the relationship between a well-respected doctor and a violent criminal is more shocking than anyone could guess in this unholy tale of a repressed man giving himself over wholly to the worst of his vices and shame. Also, two medical students turn to grave robbing in “The Body Snatcher” and a man wishes on a cursed bottle in “The Bottle Imp.” In Dracula, young English lawyer Jonathan Harker’s trip to Romania to meet with Count Dracula sets off a chain of events that threaten the lives of his friends, including his fiancée, Mina. With the help of vampire expert Professor Van Helsing, can Jonathan, Mina, and their friends defeat their sinister foe? In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein is an aspiring scientist whose obsession with the idea of creating life leads him to animate a humanoid figure he crafted from corpses. Confronted with the horror of what he’s created, Frankenstein abandons his monster—who in turn vows revenge. In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories, schoolteacher Ichabod Crane flees from the Headless Horseman, Ichabod Crane sleeps for twenty years to wake to a changed world, and more. The titular Phantom of the Opera hides from the world while terrorizing the Paris Opera House and its star, beautiful soprano Christine Daaé, in The Phantom of the Opera. In The Raven & Other Writings, murder and grief dominate the eerie stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe. This deliciously eerie hardcover boxed set includes: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories Dracula Frankenstein The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories The Phantom of the Opera The Raven & Other Writings

Mon nom est Arthur Gordon Pym. Mon p re tait un respectable commer ant dans les fournitures de la marine, Nantucket, o je suis n . L'enfance d'Arthur est berc e par les r cits d'aventures des navires baleiniers de l' le du Massachusetts, dont les marins inspir rent la l gende de Moby Dick. Entra n par son meilleur ami Auguste, le jeune homme quitte enfin son le natale pour de nouveaux horizons bord du Grampus. Il n'imagine pas l'extraordinaire succession d' preuves qui l'attend. Temp te, mutinerie, naufrage, vaisseau fant me, rien ne lui sera pargn dans l' tourdissante descente aux enfers qui le conduit aux confins du monde. Dans les tendues encore inexplor es de l'Antarctique, le r cit bascule finalement dans l'irrationnel. C'est l toute l'originalit de ce roman, le seul achev par Edgar Allan Poe, m lant le roman maritime au fantastique. Il ne fallait rien de moins que la plume de Charles Baudelaire pour traduire et sublimer ce roman, devenu un grand classique de la litt rature maritime.

"Jättefin samling" Josefin Sundström, TV4 Nyhetsmorgon "Det är förtjänstfullt initierat: Frankenstein är ett exempel på hur en litterär karaktär kan vara igenkännbar även för den som inte läst romanen... här kan antologin medverka till att sprida klassiska verk till en yngre målgrupp... Victor Medinas illustrationer är fängslande."Bibliotekstjänst, Emma Hertley-Lundberg En samling med de bästa rysarna genom tiderna. De flesta känner till historien om vampyren Dracula eller Frankensteins monster flitigt återkommande i populärkulturen. Dessa och ytterligare åtta berättelser presenteras här, anpassade till åldern nio till tolv år. Varje historia får ungefär fem uppslag och flera kompletterande illustrationer i färg.Dracula (Stoker) Frankenstein (Shelly) Det skvallrande hjärtat (Poe) Dr Jekyll och mr Hyde (Stevenson) Dorian Grays porträtt (Wilde) Mumien (Doyle) Huset med de sju gavlarna (Hawthorn) Legenden om Sleepy Hollow (Irving)Spökpiraterna (Hodgeson) Hans och Greta (Grimm)En spännande antologi för den modiga som gillar att läsning ger rysningar.

R impression inchang e de l' dition originale de 1868.

R impression inchang e de l' dition originale de 1868.

Gods of the ancient world or subject of amusing memes, cats have their place guaranteed in the heart and life of man. The critic August Nemo selected this seven short stories that present the various facets of the cat: The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat by Saki, Tobermory by Saki, The Cat by Banjo Paterson, The Cats of Ulthar by H.P. Lovecraft, An Incident by Anton Chekhov, The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe and The Cat by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection

Rituals, death, the supernatural, the contrast of light and dark, man overreaching to disaster, things that lurk, unsettling nightmares and brooding landscapes, dark castles and ancient lore. Dark dreams made real. These are the creative maelstrom of gothic writing, and this collection brings together a representative sample of the best, from the finest early gothic writers.In this volume: - The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe. A dark story of madness, isolation and the supernatural. The eponymous house is falling apart, and with it, its occupant, Roderick Usher. This is one of Poe's most famous stories, hailed as a masterpiece of gothic horror.- The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James. This is his most celebrated gothic ghost story. James wasn't exclusively a gothic writer but The Turn of the Screw is unashamedly in the gothic tradition. Like the best gothic literature it's unsettling and unexplained, leaving a satisfying chill and a racing heart.- The Body Snatcher, by Robert Louis Stevenson. He is possibly best known for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, weighing in with heavy themes of good and evil, the duality of man and the limits and constraints on ambition, but two years earlier (1884) he published the story reprinted in this collection, which involves exhuming corpses, dissection and the obligatory hints of the supernatural.- Dracula's Guest, by Bram Stoker. An Englishman on his way to Transylvania becomes stranded in the snow, forced to shelter in a vampire's tomb...- The Monkey's Paw, by WW Jacobs. A supernatural story where whoever holds a mummified Indian monkey's paw gets three wishes - but the paw has been cursed by an Indian fakir so that dire consequences result from using the paw. This is a story about temptation and the supernatural - an undoubted classic.- The Shunned House, by H.P Lovecraft. This is the most modern tale here, first appearing in Weird Tales in 1937, but its instincts are firmly rooted in the Victorian gothic tradition. Lovecraft's reputation for unsettling stories was cemented with his Cthulhu mythos (first seen in 1928's The Call of Cthulhu - also in Weird Tales), still haunting the dreams and adorning the t-shirts of modern readers. The Shunned House is set in an old and abandoned Rhode Island mansion with strange weeds in the yard and phosphorescent fungus growing in the cellar, with foul smells and vapors and the mysterious outline of a human body on the floor. Determined to solve the mysteries of this strange and chilling house, Elihu Whipple decides to spend a night there. Cue the supernatural...- Dr Heidegger's Experiment, by Nathanial Hawthorne. This cautionary tale is about a man who says he has water from the fountain of youth and invites his elderly friends to experiment by drinking it. But all, inevitably is not as it seems...- The Eyes, by Edith Wharton. They appear, disembodied, to Andrew Culwin at times of pressure or when he feels guilty, an insetting, supernatural, visible sign of judgement. It's a story of weakness and moral corruption, of consciousness and character. Classic gothic.

Un detective aficionado, comienza a buscar indicios y a relacionar datos con el fin de develar este misterio que tiene al acusado encarcelado por haber sido el ltimo individuo en ver a las v ctimas con vida, y es as como, con ingenio y sagacidad, llega a ofrecer una extraordinaria explicaci n que, finalmente, demuestra que el individuo hab a sido acusado de manera injusta ya que, de acuerdo a la deducci n de el detective el responsable de los cr menes no puede ser, bajo ninguna circunstancia, un ser humano.