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The title work in this collection of ten short reports and poems is greatly regarded as the most well-known of Edgar Allan Poe's writings. This unsettling story in verse tells of a man's slow descent into madness as he mourns the increased loss of his lover. The secret visit of any talking raven that utters only one term sparks the man's continuous decrease. Now the creativity for a major motion picture starring John Cusack, these stories of secret and terror are here brought vividly to life by Blackstone Music. Poe, the inventor of the present day detective story, was an expert at weaving suspense and horror into stories that buzz and chill. One of them collection are "The Raven," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The TellTale Center," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Dark Cat," "The Facts regarding M. Valdemar," and "HopFrog." Edgar Allan Poe changed the American literary landscaping with his enhancements in the shortstory genre and his haunting lyrical poetry, and he's acknowledged with inventing North american gothic horror and detective fiction. Orphaned at 3 years old, he was first published in 1827 and then began a job as a newspaper copy writer and editor and a well-defined literary critic. In 1845 the publication of his most well-known poem, "The Raven," brought him national fame.
