The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant and influential works in American literature. Some of the celebrated tales contained in this unique volume include: the world’s finest two detective stories – “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Purloined Letter”; and three stories sure to make a reader’s hair stand on end – “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Tell-Tlae Heart,” and “The Masque of the Red Death.” This edition, published by Signet Classics on April 1, 1998, features a new introduction by Stephen Marlowe. The Signet Classic Edition of The Fall of the House of Usher has over 250,000 copies in print and is highly sought after for high school and college literature courses, including Senior High School Literature and 19th Century American Literature.