Allan, Poe, Edgar – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Tue, 12 May 2026 10:33:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Allan, Poe, Edgar – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-and-other-writings/ Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=50316 The 100th title in the much-loved Penguin Clothbound Classics series: a selection of stories, poetry and other writings from the master of Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe.

This volume demonstrates the astonishing power and imagination with which Poe probed the darkest corners of the human mind. ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, a murderer’s insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ and ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate. This volume also includes the classic ‘The Raven’, among other poems and essays.

This is the 100th volume in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design, and this edition also includes special endpapers.

Edited and with an introduction by the novelist, curator and academic David Galloway.

‘The most original genius that America has produced’
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

‘Poe has entered our popular consciousness as no other American writer’
The New York Times Book Review

]]> Hop-Frog https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/hop-frog/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=47712 90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks in his narratives of violence, retribution and animalism. It is hard to recommend Hop-Frog wholeheartedly (its original subtitle was: Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs) as it is such an affront to decency, but you will certainly never forget it.

]]> The fall of the house of Usher and other selected stories https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-and-other-selected-stories/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=35013 VINTAGE CLASSICS’ AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES
Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of all his short stories and novellas contains well-known tales ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ alongside hidden gems that both unsettle and enthrall the reader.

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