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The Extraordinary Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, the American novelist born in Boston on January 19, 1809, and who died in Baltimore on October 7, 1849, constitute the best-known part of his work. This volume brings together unique, unsurpassed stories that reveal Poe's genius like no other work, that Bostonian whom literary figures and critics defined as the "intellectual god of his century," unrivaled to this day as a short story writer and prose writer. These stories are: The Fall of the House of Usher, The Gold-Bug, The Oval Portrait, The Cask of Amontillado, The Balloon Hoax, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Masque of the Red Death, The Manuscript Found in a Bottle, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, The Case of Mr. Valdemar, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Imp of the Perverse.