Edgar Allan Poe

The avenging angel (1914): A young man yearns to escape his overbearing, one-eyed uncle. After the nephew murders the ogre, he and his lover are wracked by guilt and tormented by nightmares, ghosts, and demonic entities that drive them to even more horrifying extremes. Edgar Allen (sic) Poe: a biographical short on one of history's most haunting writers.

The masque of the red death: The evil Prince Prospero is a devil worshipper and a tyrannical ruler. Anyone who stands against him is sentenced to death. Two men dare to denounce the Prince and are imprisoned. A beautiful woman pleads for their release, but is captured by the Prince for his own pleasures. The two prisoners are brought to the Prince at his "Masque Ball" for public torture. But there is one uninvited guest standing in the shadows waiting...

Comedy of terrors: Waldo Trumbull is running his father-in-law's funeral home business...straight into the ground. Hounded by his landlord, Trumbull and his assistant devise a way to make death pay: by increasing their customer base through murder and burying the secrets to their success. The raven: Inspired by the gothic poem by Poe and starring horror legends Price, Lorre and Karloff, this Corman classic about two wizards dueling for magical supremacy...

"These fourteen tales, plays and poems, gleaned from cultures around the world, range from comic to deathly serious, from New England reserve to Gallic passion. This volume of late-night listening is a witch's brew of readings and dramatizations seasoned tastefully with music and sound effects." --container.

Metzengerstein is the tale of a young woman who believes the spirit of the cousin she loved, killed in a stable fire she started, is in a horse that escaped. William Wilson is the story of a mean-spirited Austrian officer who kills his doppelgänger in a duel. Toby Dammit is about a film star who, haunted by a vision of the Devil, takes off on a drunken spree after his film is completed.

Alexander Jessup has collected some of the best in American humorous short stories into one volume. The truly great American storytellers are represented in this volume. Edgar Allan Poe, who is known primarily for his horror stories is represented here with his story The Angel of the Odd. Edward Everett Hale has written a delightful story entitled My Double: And How He Undid Me. A Visit to the Asylum For the Aged and Decayed Punsters was written by...

Presents sixteen scripts adapted from classic works of English literature, including "Little Women," "The Necklace," and "Frankenstein," and offers easy dialogue, prop suggestions, and background information.