Publisher's Synopsis
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, the com¬pan¬ion vol¬ume to Poe's better-known Tales of Mys¬tery and Imag¬i¬na¬tion, con¬tains a selec¬tion of his very best sto¬ries, many of which first appeared in book form in the orig¬i¬nal Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. Many of the sto¬ries deal with the famil¬iar Poe themes of mur¬der, obses¬sion and pas¬sion, but this vol¬ume also con¬tains many often-overlooked tales of the fan¬tas¬tic and comic, par¬o¬dies and hoaxes, includ¬ing 'The Unpar¬al¬leled Adven¬ture of Hans Pfaall', 'Mes¬meric Rev¬e¬la¬tion', 'Hop-Frog', and & 'The Imp of the Perverse'.The book includes a sec¬tion in colour, and con¬tains use¬ful essays from notable schol¬ars: an intro-duc¬tion by Kevin J. Hayes and Ben¬jamin F. Fisher on Poe and the gothic.engag¬ing biog¬ra¬phy of Edgar Allen Poethe com¬plete text in a mod¬ern, read¬able typefacean illus¬trated pub¬lish¬ing his¬tory of the talestime¬line in colour of Poe's worldcolour map of Poe's America
