"I am not more certain that I breathe than that the assurance of the wrong or error of any action is often the one unconquerable force which impels us, and alone impels us, to its prosecution.Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with the perverse is seen at its most appalling in these tales, in which killers are betrayed by the wail of a cat or the beat of a heart or perhaps by their own perverseness.And Poe's love of extremis takes us to premature burials, into the maelström, and to the bedside of a man mesmerized in the final moments of life - who lives on to declare "I am dead."This selection includes six of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales of horror together with his three masterly stories of the unknown at sea: 'MS. Found in a Bottle', 'A Descent into the Maelström', and his only novel, 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'.
