The Fall of the House of Usher. Scary Tales of Secrets and Imagination

The collection includes the best works of Edgar Poe - psychological, detective, mystical. Mysterious stories in which it is difficult to draw the line between reality and fiction, while horror overwhelms all other feelings. These tales captivate and make one... believe in the supernatural.
One of the greatest American romantics of the 19th century, Edgar Allan Poe is a mysterious figure. The writer's life is shrouded in mystery and a sinister atmosphere, much like his works. Edgar Poe gazed into the abyss all his life, and the abyss gazed back at him, giving birth to stories: gloomy, strange, whimsical. In them, he touched upon themes of death, suffering, the duality of the soul, the disintegration of personality, the innate depravity of man, his inexplicable cruelty, and supernatural abilities. Edgar Poe was the first to propose making a detective the main character, his main weapon - analytical abilities, and the basis of the plot - a murder investigation. The famous Sherlock Holmes owes his birth to him.
The book reproduces illustrations by Harry Clarke, which lie somewhere on the border of whimsy and horror, deeply resonant with the spirit of the published stories. If the author himself had taken on illustrating his own tales, he would undoubtedly have done so in a similar style.