<p>"Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them."<br></p><p>Behold: a selection of short stories from the master of the macabre, Edgar Allen Poe.<br></p><p>From the brilliant mind of a man responsible for popularising the genres of detective fiction and science fiction come these unforgettable tales of death, decay and the dark depths of human emotion. They will, almost inevitably, crawl under your skin and into your brain.<br></p><p>The Legend Classics series:<br> Around the World in Eighty Days<br> The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<br> The Importance of Being Earnest<br> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland<br> The Metamorphosis<br> The Railway Children<br> The Hound of the Baskervilles<br> Frankenstein<br> Wuthering Heights<br> Three Men in a Boat<br> The Time Machine<br> Little Women<br> Anne of Green Gables<br> The Jungle Book<br> The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories<br> Dracula<br> A Study in Scarlet<br> Leaves of Grass<br> The Secret Garden<br> The War of the Worlds<br> A Christmas Carol<br> Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde<br> Heart of Darkness<br> The Scarlet Letter<br> This Side of Paradise<br> Oliver Twist<br> The Picture of Dorian Gray<br> Treasure Island<br> The Turn of the Screw<br> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer<br> Emma<br> The Trial<br> A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe<br> Grimm Fairy Tales<br> The Awakening<br> Mrs Dalloway<br> Gulliver's Travels<br> The Castle of Otranto<br> Silas Marner<br> Hard Times<br></p>