About the book: 2018 / Edgar Allan Poe is a man of dazzling talent and woeful fate. A classic of American literature, poet and prose writer, unsurpassed creator of grotesque phantasmagoria, insane nightmares, and elegant logical constructions. He has written many stories: psychological, gothic, romantic, detective, satirical and parody. In his poems, Poe turns away from “life as it is” and creates a different reality, unclear and foggy, the reality of dreams and dreams, which for more than a century has not let go of admirers of his work. This volume includes all of Poe’s stories, the famous novel -hoax of “The Messages of Arthur Gordon Pym”, as well as poems and poems.