“It is because I liked Edgar Allan Poe’s stories so much that I began to make suspense films.” ALFRED HITCHCOCK “Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?” ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE “Mr. Poe has that indescribable something that men have agreed to call genius.” JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL “Poe constantly and inevitably produced […]
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Mystery & Fantasy Stories
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Mystery & Fantasy Stories features four mysterious and fantastic tales from America’s premier author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The volume includes “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the short story that served as the basis for the 2008 film starring Brad Pitt. “Fitzgerald had one of the rarest qualities in all of literature…the word is charm…a […]
Ghost Stories by Edith Wharton
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Ghost Stories features ten ghostly tales of the Gilded Age from one of America’s finest writers — Edith Wharton (1862-1937), author of The Age of Innocence, winner of the 1920 Pulitzer Prize. “Wharton’s graceful sentences create dramatic, populous tableaux and peel back layer after layer of artifice and pretense, of what we say and how […]