This three-volume collection brings together over 1500 pages of Edgar Allan Poe's most important stories, all the famous classics as well as lesser-known marvels and treasures.Edgar Allan Poe was the unsurpassed master of the uncanny. With a razor-sharp pen, he dissected the night side of the human soul. The American wrote world literature in the truest sense of the word: His stories went around the world and fertilized countless authors and entire literary genres. Poe, who lived to be only 41 years old, was prolific in an almost uncanny way.