In certain writers you never know where reality ends and legend begins. Edgar Allan Poe is the cursed writer par excellence. Cursed not in the current snobbish sense of the term, but rather in a deep meaning of his soul ruled by hells through alcohol and insanity.
But... What would literature be without its influence? The underworld is a fascinating creative space to which Poe and many other writers frequently descended in search of inspiration, leaving shreds of skin and pieces of their soul with each new incursion.
And the results are there ... poems, stories, stories. Chilling sensations between delusions and feelings of a violent, aggressive world, lurking for every sensitive heart. The darkness with the adornment of the dreamlike and the insane, the lyricism of out-of-tune violins and voices from beyond the grave that awaken obsessive echoes. Death disguised as verse or prose, dancing its carnival in the imagination of the intrepid reader.
A good compilation of the best of Poe, the master of terror, we can find it in this great case for lovers of this genius:
I am not going to discover Poe at this point, but, between the aforementioned compilation and some others that are out there, I am going to dare to offer my ...
3 best Edgar Allan Poe books
Comic stories
I keep a copy of this composition of Poe's stories like gold in a cloth. He can still remember sinister images. A lavish dinner of illustrious dead characters, all smiling and enjoying an evening with overtones of eternity, right in that space where the living on the other side can listen, in their dreams, to their commotions...
This work groups together various stories by Edgar Allan Poe with a unique theme: humor and satire. They constitute a sample of the work produced by this tormented genius who, in his brief existence, was the creator of strange, complex and fruitful works.
The stories, the tales, the stories in this book were written in intermittent trances between his enlightenment and his anguish. A compilation of sleepless nights accompanied by ignominious characters.
The Dupin Trilogy
A highly recommended book to delve into those detective stories so particularly Poe. Between the macabre and the sinister, Auguste Dupin advances to unravel those cases of the underworld that the author knew so well.
Dupin makes his way through wicked minds capable of harboring evil to its highest degree. Described by Matthew Pearl, author of The Shadow of Poe, as "an eccentric and brilliant investigator", and by Arthur Conan Doyle as "the best detective in fiction", C. Auguste Dupin is one of the most famous characters in world literature. .
The Dupin trilogy contains the only three stories starring Dupin, three unusual stories in the literary production of Edgar Allan Poe. In "The Murders of the Rue Morgue", "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" and "The Stolen Letter", the shrewd investigator who served as a model for Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot demonstrates his brilliant deductive intelligence. A display of talent that acquires its full dimension in the excellent translation by Julio Cortázar.
Macabre tales
The macabre as a sinister exaltation of death. That is the idea that Poe's imaginary presents to reveal, in this selection of stories, the gloomy beauty of the sinister, of the madness capable of finding in death and murder a glow of resentment, absence and remorse.
The haunting stories, which are translated by Julio Cortázar, are accompanied by spectacular illustrations by Benjamin Lacombe. This unique edition also includes a text by Baudelaire on the life and work of Poe. It contains the stories Berenice, The Black Cat, The Fairy Island, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Oval Portrait, Morella and Ligeia.
