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The three tales that make up Edgar Allan Poe's The Dupin Mysteries introduce us to the cracking character of Chevalier Auguste Dupin. As a rationalist and practitioner of brilliant deduction, he was to become the template for most of the detective fiction that followed speedily in his wake. The first tale, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", details a form of murder solving that was to become only too familiar.

Edgar Allen Poe's masterful poem, The Raven, is a strange and haunting story of lost love. It tells of a distraught young man who, while lamenting the loss of his lover, Lenore, is visited by a talking raven, adding a supernatural element to an already mysterious experience. The story traces the man's slow, sorrowful descent into madness. This edition of The Raven includes historical information about the author and the story.

This collection comprises stories by and inspired by the originators of weird fiction. From Allen's "The Arctic Death", through to Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", Stoker's "Dracula's Guest", and beyond. Time immemorial; worlds unimaginable.

This is a SoundCraft Audiobooks production - enhanced with music and sound effects - of some of the greatest works of Edgar Allan Poe, long heralded as the dark master of macabre fiction and one of America's most celebrated authors. Here, in this collection, you can enjoy four of his most beloved tales: The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter, and The Masque of the Red Death. Poe's atmospheric, moving and disturbing stories are perfect for a late-night listen that will send a shiver up your spine!

A collection of classic, exciting short stories and poems, narrated by Adam Lubitz. There are nine tracks total and over two hours of content.

Listening to great writing is a pleasure unto itself. Sometimes the opening paragraph of a work, or even the first sentence, makes it obvious that you are in the hands of a master, and once venturing a few furtive steps onto the path of prose, no matter what forest it enters, valley it descends, or mountain it scales, you will walk the entire distance.

Hallo! Willkommen zur zweisprachigen Lernserie Language Magic™. Nachdem Sie die Grundlagen aus dem Klassenzimmer oder einem der vielen hervorragenden Sprachlernprogramme gelernt haben, ist es Zeit, die Sprache flüssig zu sprechen! „Der Rabe“, „Das Fass von Amontillado“ und „Das verräterische Herz“ sind einige der berühmtesten Werke von Poe. Diese zweisprachigen Versionen von „Das Fass von Amontillado“ und „Das verräterische Herz“ von Language Magic™ sind Originalübersetzungen, die Sprachlernern helfen sollen, die Sprache fließend zu sprechen.

Hallo! Willkommen zur zweisprachigen Lernserie Language Magic™. Nachdem Sie die Grundlagen aus dem Klassenzimmer oder einem der vielen hervorragenden Sprachlernprogramme gelernt haben, ist es Zeit, die Sprache flüssig zu sprechen! „Das verräterische Herz“ ist einige der berühmtesten Werke von Poe. Diese zweisprachige Version von „Das verräterische Herz“ von Language Magic™ ist eine Originalübersetzungen, die Sprachlernern helfen sollen, die Sprache fließend zu sprechen.

Hallo! Willkommen zur zweisprachigen Lernserie Language Magic™. Nachdem Sie die Grundlagen aus dem Klassenzimmer oder einem der vielen hervorragenden Sprachlernprogramme gelernt haben, ist es Zeit, die Sprache flüssig zu sprechen! „Das Fass von Amontillado“ ist einige der berühmtesten Werke von Poe. Diese zweisprachige Version von „Das Fass von Amontillado“ von Language Magic™ ist eine Originalübersetzungen, die Sprachlernern helfen sollen, die Sprache fließend zu sprechen.

Greetings! Welcome to the Language Magic™ dual-language learning series. After you’ve learned the basics from the classroom or one of the many excellent language learning programs out there, it's time to get fluent! The Cask of Amontillado is one of Poe’s most famous short stories. This dual-language version from Language Magic™ is an original translation optimized to aid language learners on the fast-track to fluency.

An anthology of chilling, classic horror stories, including "The Tale-Tell Heart", "The Pit and the Pendulum", and "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe; "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving; "The Hand", "Was it a Dream?", and "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant; "The Red Room" by H.G. Wells; "Moon-Face" by Jack London; "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

This dual-language version of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is part of LinguaDisco's Language Magic™ learning series. This version is for English speakers desiring to gain fluency in the target language by repeated listening to an entertaining story delivered sentence-by-sentence in English and your target language.

Greetings! Welcome to the Language Magic dual-language learning series. After you’ve learned the basics from the classroom or one of the many excellent language learning programs out there, it's time to get fluent! It’s true that gaining fluency with a language is a big hill to climb. But it’s also true that there are different ways to climb that hill. The fastest way is total immersion. Live in country. But most of us can’t do that.

Aufgewühlt durch den dringlichen Brief des Jugendfreundes Roderick Usher reitet der namenlose Ich-Erzähler zu dessen Anwesen, dem Hause Usher, das durch seine gespenstische Umgebung, insbesondere den Teich, aus dem es sich erhebt, sowie durch einen Riss, der sich durch das Gemäuer zieht, einen beunruhigenden und schreckenerregenden Eindruck erweckt. Es wird außerdem von dem See erzählt, an dem das Haus Usher liegt. Dort trifft der Erzähler den nervlich stark überreizten, anscheinend an einer Geisteskrankheit leidenden Hausherrn, den letzten Spross eines degenerierten Adelsgeschlechtes.

Opening with the poem that made Poe a household name overnight, this collection of his short works includes the narrative poem "The Raven", the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", and the first of Poe's "ratiocination" tales: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", featuring the first of the fictional detectives: C. Auguste Dupin.

A prisoner, sentenced to death during the Spanish Inquisition, finds himself trapped in a lightless cell to contemplate his fate. Will he die by falling helplessly into a deathly, yawning pit in the center of the room? Or will the deadly, razor-sharp pendulum slowly descending from the ceiling be the cause of his demise? This enhanced audiobook - with music and sound effects - is an unabridged copy of the classic story by the master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe.

Más de 25 horas de audiolibros: CORAZÓN INDIO, de Nieves Herrero; LA ESPOSA DEL SOL, de G. Leroux; EL ESCARABAJO DE ORO, de Edgar Allan Poe; y MANAOS, de Alberto Vázquez Figueroa.

"Hop Frog", (originariamente "Hop-Frog, Or, The Eight Chained Ourangoutangs") è un racconto pubblicato la prima volta nel 1849. Un giullare nano, organizza la propria vendetta verso il re che aveva recato offesa alla sua amica nana Trippetta. "Il cuore rivelatore", breve racconto del 1843, narra dell'omicidio di un personaggio senza nome che, ossessionato dall'occhio vitreo del vecchio avvocato per cui lavorava, decide di ucciderlo, per eliminare per sempre dalla sua vista l'occhio.

La joven Marie Rogêt una mañana sale de casa diciéndole a su madre que va a casa de su tía y que no volverá hasta el anochecer, y que la irá a recoger su novio. Éste, cuando va a la residencia de la tía de Marie, se entera de que su novia no estuvo allí y que no volvió a casa. Aun así nadie se alarmó porque tres años antes también se había escapado, y volvió.

Soy descendiente de una estirpe cuya imaginación y temperamento fácilmente excitable la destacó en todo momento; y desde la más tierna infancia di muestras de haber heredado plenamente el carácter de la familia. A medida que avanzaba en años, ese carácter se desarrolló con más fuerza y se convirtió por muchos motivos en causa de grave preocupación para mis amigos, y de acusado perjuicio para mí. Crecí con voluntad propia, entregado a los más extravagantes caprichos, y víctima de las más incontrolables pasiones.