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Perhaps Poe's most famous work, "The Raven" was first published in 1845 in the New York Evening Mirror. Known for its tight rhymes and rhythm and the repetitive response given by the eponymous raven - "nevermore" - the poem focuses on that raven and a forlorn man who is distraught over his lost lover, Lenore.

A brilliant story that forcefully explains the value of perspective. We all will express a view based on what we see, but there may be times when what we see is not what is real. A masterful short story from the mind of Edgar Allan Poe. Narrated by Glenn Hascall.

When a man is killed because of his deformed eye, his heart seeks revenge.

SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent they sound like movies. Included here are 13 classic horror tales.

An eclectic collection of many of the spookiest classic tales of horror, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The New Catacomb"; Edgar Allan Poe's "Masque of the Red Death", "Hop-Frog", and "The Cask of Amontillado"; W. W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw"; Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"; and Algernon Backwood's "The Willows".

This production is a full audio dramatization of one of the most popular horror stories of the past 200 years. In this story, a man (Edward) is afforded a place to stay in exchange for doing chores around the house. However, his landlord (Mr. Graves), a friendly and gracious old man, has one characteristic which drives Edward to the brink of madness: a pale blue eye. Eventually, Edward decides that he can't take the eye any longer, and despite his generally cordial relationship with Mr. Graves, is determined to kill him, thus ridding himself of the eye forever.

Tercer volumen de esta recopilación de cuentos poco tranquilizadores de grandes autores. Conversaciones con fantasmas, resucitados, momias , doppelgangers o incluso...el mismísimo diablo. Dickens, Poe y Maupassant vuelven a la carga con algunos de los mejores relatos del género, pero los autores invitados en esta edición: la polifacética doña Emilia Pardo Bazan y el perturbador Leonid Andreyev se encargarán de ampliar nuestros horizontes y seguir crispando nuestro descanso e imaginación.

Zehn Meisterwerke von weltberühmten Autoren versammeln sich in dieser Hörbuch-Box! Mit dabei: "Der Spiegel des Cyprianus" (Storm), "Novelle" (Goethe), "Michael Kohlhaas" (Kleist), "Traumnovelle" (Schnitzler), "William Wilson" (Poe), "Ein Glücklicher" (Tschechow), "Wie eine schöne und tugendsame Frau zur Hure gemacht werden sollte" (Balzac), "Lösche den Funken, ehe er zur Flamme wird" (Tolstoi), "24 Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau" (Zweig), "Die Büste des Kaisers" (Roth).

This story is based on the actual murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers, a crime that paralyzed New York because of the unprecedented violence that the murderer turned on her. Mary Cecilia Rogers was born in Connecticut in 1820 and disappeared on October 4, 1838, in unclear circumstances. Some days later the newspapers announced that she had been found and had fled to marry a naval officer. The case was closed, but three years later, on July 25, 1841, Mary Cecilia Rogers disappeared again. Her lifeless body was found floating in the Hudson River

I should be whispering this because Halloween is almost upon us. A time of Witches, Ghouls and Hauntings and all kinds of scary things that come out the evening before All Saints Day to wreak havoc... I'm glad you're listening so let us begin

I should be whispering this because Halloween is almost upon us. A time of Witches, Ghouls and Hauntings and all kinds of scary things that come out the evening before All Saints Day to wreak havoc... I'm glad you're listening so let us begin.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is celebrated for his tales of the macabre and the supernatural. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is one of his most famous. In it, the narrator tells how, without any motive, but merely because he is obsessed with his eye (“The eye of a vulture”), he murders an old man, and of the consequences when the murdered man's heart seeks revenge.

The Weird Circle, featuring tales of terror and horror, aired from 1943-1947, mainly on the Mutual radio network. This episode was originally broadcast on September 19, 1943.

In the 21st century we have all seen pictures of Earth from the perspective of space. We've seen the moon close up, and pictures of other planets and stars. This classic takes us back to a time when no one had any idea what the Earth would look like from space. Some experiences seem remarkably accurate while others could only draw from imagination. Follow the journey of Hans Pfaal of Rotterdam who saw a voyage to an inhabited moon as the best alternative to avoiding a life filled with financial difficulty. Rare science fiction from Poe. Narrated by Glenn Hascall.

This collection features four spine-tingling horror stories to entice your imagination, including "Bewitched" by Edith Wharton, "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Body Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson, and "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Each story is chillingly enhanced by music and sound effects. Four Classic Horror Stories is best listened to by candle light at the midnight hour, when the wind howls ‘round the house and ghosts whisper from the dark shadows!

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841. Poe referred to it as a "tale of ratiocination" featuring the brilliant deductions of C. Auguste Dupin; it is today regarded as one of the first detective stories and is almost certainly the first locked-room mystery. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.

During a cholera epidemic in New York City, the narrator visits a relative living just outside of the city. One day, the narrator has a vision of a ghastly monster alighting in the distant hills. After a second vision, his host reveals that the "monster" is neither as large nor as distant as the visitor imagined, being only an insect.

Edgar Allan Poe is the undisputed "father" of the detective story. C. Auguste Dupin tries to solve a mysterious brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human...and so it begins....

First published in an 1843 edition of the Saturday Evening Post, "The Black Cat" tells the story of a man and his increasingly antagonistic relationship with his cat. Akin to "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Black Cat" investigates the psychological effects of guilt as well as the potentially destructive and violent consequences of alcoholism.

"Alrededor de la medianoche, durante una noche del mes de octubre, bajo el reinado caballeresco de Eduardo III, dos marineros pertenecientes a la tripulación del Free-and-Easy...", así empieza este relato en que los dos marineros se internan en una brumosa y espeluznante zona de Londres bajo el dominio de la peste. Lo que allí encuentran es algo de lo más extraño. El conflicto está servido.