Cliffs Notes: Poe's Short Stories

Edgar Allan Poe is celebrated as the genius of the gothic horror story. Emphasizing the grotesque, the mysterious, the desolate, and the horrible, he arouses fear in readers. He is the champion of storytelling that gives us a nervous sense of the ghostly and the supernatural. This CliffsNotes book includes coverage of The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, Liegia, and others.