Classic Edgar Allan Poe Thriller Collection

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: You have won, I have lost. But from now on, you are also dead—dead to the world, dead to heaven, dead to hope. I am alive, and only then do you exist; I am dead, look at me, this is yourself, see how thoroughly you have murdered yourself.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American writer and literary critic. Born into a family of actors, he advocated "art for art's sake," promoting aestheticism and mysticism. He was greatly influenced by the decadent movement in Western, particularly French, bourgeois literature. His novels include The Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, The Black Cat, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue. His essays include The Philosophy of Composition and The Principles of Poetry.
Published in 1841, The Murders in the Rue Morgue is widely recognized as the earliest detective novel. It tells the story of a murder in a locked room, with the culprit being a chimpanzee. Published in 1842, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt is a purely deductive mystery, solved through reasoning alone. Other works, such as The Gold Bug, The Marquis de Morcerf, and The Purloined Letter, successfully created five distinct detective novel models: locked-room murder, pure reasoning detective from the armchair, solving cryptographic tricks, the detective as the murderer, and psychological detection, as well as the blind spot of human perception. These novels also established Auguste Dupin as an artistic archetype of the amateur detective.
Edgar Allan Poe is hailed as the "father of the detective novel." His novels are characterized by their bizarre and fantastical style, filled with an atmosphere of horror.