Who is the uninvited guest wearing a creepy costume at Prince Prospero's ball? Can a man be driven mad by the "sounds" of the crime he has committed? These spine-tingling stories and others by Edgar Allan Poe are adapted for a first chapter book reader.
from the back cover: The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery. Ex…
from the back cover: The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night . . . is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror . . . is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round? These famous short stories by Edgar Al…
Sebagai seorang pewaris dari English Romantic, Edgar Allan Poe (19 Januari 1809 – 7 Oktober 1849) adalah kekuatan sastra yang hebat melalui usahanya sendiri. Tak hanya seorang tokoh yang sangat penting dalam dunia sastra Amerika, dia juga seorang master kesusastraan yang diakui, baik yang ber-setting horor, misteri atau detektif. Tiga kisah dalam Tales of Terror and Detection, yaitu Naskah …
from the back cover: Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around you, waiting . . . In th…