The Tell-Tale Heart and Other TalesEdgar Allan PoeLabel: The British Library Publishing DivisionDescription: A masquerade ball in a secluded abbey; a vendetta settled in the wine cellars of an Italian palazzo; a gloomy castle in a desolated landscape; the beating of a heart beneath the floorboards: the plots and settings of Poe's dark mysterious tales continue to haunt the popular imagination. This new selection introduces the greatest Gothic fiction from one of the most deranged and deliciously weird writers of the nineteenth century. The tales are accompanied by the classic illustrations of Harry Clarke an artist fully alive to the deep darkness at the heart of Poe's writing.
