This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storytellers art as The Tell-tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum, and such unforgettable poems as The Raven, The Bells, and Annabel Lee. Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by The Purloined Letter, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue.