Reading & Training: American Horror. Five Terrifying Tales + audio CD | Edgar Allan Poe, Kenneth Brodey

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the first masters of modern short stories and modernist poetry. But he is best remembered for his strange style of horror, with characters who cannot be forgotten. A man who drains away his wife's life to make his painting seem alive; an animal lover who becomes obsessed by a cat; a young man obsessed by an old man's blue eye; and a man hypnotized just before he dies who then...Dossiers:Poe's Scientific ImaginationPoe as Pop IconPoe's America