A lone traveler seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "e;loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man.
The modern world has been stripped of imagination and belief in magic when a man gazing from his window upon the stars comes to observe secret vistas unsuspected by normal humanity.
An old manuscript unleashes the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, for him to rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.
Una selección de relatos de Edgar Allan Poe publicados entre 1835 y 1844:-Morella (1835)-Un descenso por el Maelström (1841)-El misterio de Marie Rogêt (1843)-El cajón oblongo (1844)-El entierro prematuro (1844)-La carta robada (1844)
Neuübersetzung von "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", einer Gothic-Story des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Washington Irving, die geschrieben wurde, als Irving im Ausland in Birmingham, England, lebte; erstmals 1819 veröffentlicht.
The Stories included are:The Nameless CityThe FestivalThe Colour Out of SpaceThe Call of CthulhuThe Dunwich HorrorThe Whisperer in DarknessThe Dreams in the Witch HouseThe Haunter of the DarkThe Shadow Over InnsmouthDiscarded Draft of "e;The Shadow Over Innsmouth"e;The Shadow Out of TimeAt the Mountains of MadnessThe Case of Charles Dexter WardAzathothBeyond the Wall of SleepCelephaisCool AirDagonEx OblivioneFacts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His FamilyFrom BeyondHeHerbert West-ReanimatorHypnosIn the VaultMemoryNyarlathotepPickman's ModelThe BookThe Cats of UltharThe DescendantThe Doom That Came to SarnathThe Dream-Quest of Unknown KadathThe Evil ClergymanThe Horror at Red HookThe HoundThe Lurking FearThe Moon-BogThe Music of Erich ZannThe Other GodsThe OutsiderThe Picture in the HouseThe Quest of IranonThe Rats in the WallsThe Shunned HouseThe Silver KeyThe Statement of Randolph CarterThe Strange High House in the MistThe StreetThe TempleThe Terrible Old ManThe Thing on the DoorstepThe TombThe Transition of Juan RomeroThe TreeThe UnnamableThe White ShipWhat the Moon BringsPolarisThe Very Old FolkIbidOld BugsSweet Ermengarde, or, The Heart of a Country GirlA Reminiscence of Dr.
This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.