Classic tales of mystery, terror, imagination, and suspense from the celebrated master of the macabre.

This volume gathers together fourteen of Edgar Allan Poe's richest and most influential tales, including: "The Pit and the Pendulum," his reimagining of Inquisition tortures; "The Tell-Tale Heart," an exploration of a murderer's madness, which Stephen King called "the best tale of inside evil ever written"; "The Fall of the House of Usher," Poe's tour de force about a family doomed by a grim bloodline curse; and his pioneering detective stories, "The Purloined Letter" and "The...

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. This gritty tale, "Model for Murder," is written by highly acclaimed mystery writer, Stephen Marlowe. It was three murders for the price of one. There weren't too many guys around who would take a two-year stretch in prison for someone else's crime, but that's exactly what Jason Chase did for his brother, Ken. And to show his gratitude, Ken then married Jason's girlfriend while he lay wasting away in a dank prison cell-talk about brotherly love However, Ken did have a big fat check for a...