The American Gothic Horror irrefutable master, Edgar Allan Poe, show his genius in tales of terror, perversity, death and evil. With high artistry in accomplishing a determined psychological outcome. Poe conceive horrifying imaginary nightmares infuse with mysterious forces, grotesque creatures and chilling apparitions. This anthology incorporated fourteen best tales submerging the reader into the immense powers of the one of the greatest storyteller and the peak of his mastery. Among them we find "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," a captivating 19th-century detective tale that provided the germ for future mystery writers; "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Masque of the Red Death," pervaded with bizarre thoughts, impulses, and despair; "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado," classics of atrocities and wickedness; "The Pit and the Pendulum," with its excruciating and imminent death; and "The Gold-Bug," a intriguing detective story that armonize love and adventure in an gripping tale of a hidden treasure. Mystery admirers and horror story lovers will find this compilation, by one of the colossal skilled of the form, an appealing inclusion to their personal libraries.