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Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Edgar Allan Poe

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

£70

Illustrated By Evangeline Gallagher

Introduced By Joe Hill

Macabre, masterful and still terrifying – Poe’s tales cast a long shadow over horror fiction. This new Folio features ten haunting illustrations by FBIA winner Evangeline Gallagher and an introduction by Joe Hill. Prepare to descend into madness, mystery and the supernatural with literature’s undisputed master of the Gothic.

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Book Details

Production DetailsBound in cloth printed and blocked with a design by the artist
Printed slipcase

Dimensions9½ inches x 6¼ inches

FontTypeset in Walbaum

Pages440

AuthorEdgar Allan Poe

Illustrated ByEvangeline Gallagher

IllustrationFrontispiece and ten colour illustrations
Part-title illustration for each chapter

Publication Date21/10/2025

PrintingFirst Printing

Editor's Notes

Edgar Allan Poe – the undisputed master of the American Gothic short story – died in mysterious circumstances on 7 October 1849. This new Folio of Tales of Mystery and Imagination celebrates a legacy that has infused so much of our literary world. From swinging pendulums, beating hearts and malevolent cats to the first true detective stories (featuring C. Auguste Dupin), Poe's works of the macabre continue to inspire and influence writers, filmmakers, musicians and gamers. To invoke this legacy, our new version features an exclusive introduction by award-winning Horror writer Joe Hill, who delves into Poe's influence and stature as the greatest Gothic short-story writer.

Illustrated by our Folio Book Illustration Award competition winner, Evangeline Gallagher, we have ten full-page terrifying images as well as chapter head illustrations for all the stories, along with a flutter of Raven's feathers. All as unsettling as the stories themselves.

Synopsis

Dark chambers, haunted minds and hearts that thump beneath the floorboards – Poe's stories are the original nightmares. Blending elements of gothic horror, suspense and the macabre, these tales explore themes of madness, death and the supernatural. Stories like ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, and ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’, as well as Poe's most famous poem, ‘The Raven’, showcase his mastery of psychological depth and the ability to evoke fear and intrigue. Read on ... if you dare.

About the Illustrator

Evangeline Gallagher

Evangeline Gallagher is a freelance illustrator based in Baltimore, Maryland. They received their BFA in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2018, and was the inaugural winner of the Folio Book Illustration Award in 2022. Since winning the Folio award, they have gone on to work on illustrations for clients like Peachtree Publishing, Possum Creek Games, and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

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Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Contents

Metzengerstein
MS Found in a Bottle
Berenice
Morella
King Pest
Ligeia
The Fall of the House of Usher
William Wilson
The Man of the Crowd
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
A Descent into the Maelström
The Oval Portrait
The Masque of the Red Death
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Gold-Bug
The Black Cat
The Oblong Box
The Premature Burial
 The Purloined Letter
 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
 The Cask of Amontillado

The Raven

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Edgar Allan Poe's (1809-49) experiments with the short story made him an enduringly important figure in American literature. He is widely considered the inventor of the detective story, a master of Gothic horror and a pioneer of science fiction. His influence ranges from Conan Doyle to Lovecraft and from Hitchcock to Nabokov. Born in Boston, he was brought up in Richmond, Virginia. Desperate for an income, he served in the army and studied at the West Point military academy before devoting himself purely to writing in the 1830s. As well as the short stories collected in Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1839; Folio 2025) Poe was an accomplished poet, and works such as 'The Raven' are widely read today; he also wrote a single novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838; Folio 2015), now seen as his masterpiece though it was received with hostility in Poe's lifetime. Poe was also an essayist and critic, and his ideas on physics, cryptography and other subjects were strikingly ahead of their time. He died in mysterious circumstances aged just 40.

Joe Hill is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Heart-Shaped Box (2007), Horns (2010), NOS4A2 (2013), The Fireman (2016); a collection of novellas, Strange Weather (2017); and the acclaimed story collections 20th Century Ghosts (2005) and Full Throttle (2019). He is also the Eisner Award-winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key (2008-13). Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix) and The Black Phone (Blumhouse).

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