<b>90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books<br></b><br> Edgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks in his narratives of violence, retribution and animalism. It is hard to recommend <i>Hop-Frog</i> wholeheartedly (its original subtitle was: <i>Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs</i>) as it is such an affront to decency, but you will certainly never forget it.