The Pit and the Pendulum...The Purloined Letter...The Tell-Tale Heart...A Descent into Maelstrom...and six other choice chillers by the acknowledged master of mystery, fantasy, and horror. These ten absorbing stories, selected by a famed anthologist of science-fiction and the supernatural, prove that even after a century Poe's imagination still works it macabre magic. --back cover Contains: The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Purloined Letter The Tell-Tale Heart The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar The Pit and the Pendulum A Tale of the Ragged Mountains A Descent Into the Maelstrom The Black Cat "thou Art the Man" Metzengerstein The Haunted Palace The City in the Sea To Helen Annabel Lee The Bells