HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'To an anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden slave.' Including Poe's most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, this is the ultimate collection of the infamous author's macabre works. Unbound by the constraints that science and reason placed on reality, Poe focused on the internal conflict of individuals, the power of the dead over the living, and psychological explorations of darker human emotion. An American writer of fantastical, bizarre and sometimes disturbing short stories, Poe...

Initially composed by Poe as a public lecture towards the end his career and considered by him the culmination of all his life's work, Eureka is an extended treatise about the creation, existence and the ultimate end of the world. An idiosyncratic blend of creative writing and scientific discourse, with unexpected forays into comedy and wordplay, this self-styled "prose poem" is a genre-defying masterpiece. Although it baffled the reading public of its time, Eureka found many prominent admirers, from Charles Baudelaire to W.H. Auden, and has since assembled an audience receptive to its...