Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allen Poe is, without doubt, one of my favourite authors. His stories have been used in as wide a diversity of medias as NYPD blue to being the premise for some direction for new Shakespeare productions. Based on his “tales of mystery and imagination” this re-release of America’s most underrated poet and author is a welcome sign to his fans. Reading Poe’s tales is journeying on a “deliberate suspension of disbelief” his tales are fuelled invariably by opium, and you frequently venture into an almost Kafkaesque landscape, where bizzarity is the norm. Yet far from the acerbic challenge that Kafka represents Poe is more ...  Read the complete review