The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe '... an agility astounding; a strength superhuman; a ferocity brutal; a butchery without motive; a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity...' Horror; madness; violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales; including - among others - the bloody; brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'; the creeping insanity of 'The Tell-Tale Heart'; the Gothic nightmare of 'The Masque of the Red Death'; and the terrible doom of 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English; from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.