The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The portrait painted by an artist robs his sitter of her life. A jester dwarf takes terrible revenge on the king and his court. The Red Death stalks the chambers of Prince Prospero. The razor-edged pendulum swings lower towards a prisoner of the Inquisition. And Montresor takes Fortunato to a dank Roman cellarage, to taste an Amontillado... Ten of Edgar Allan Poe's great tales of horror, jeopardy and death, and the four classic tales with which he created a new genre, the detective story : " The Gold-Bug ", " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", " The Mystery of Marie Rogêt " and " The Purloined Letter ".