Edgar Allan Poe Audio Books

   Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic. His was part of the American Romantic Movement. Edgar Allen Poe is known for his tales of mystery and his macabrestories. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the earliest American writers who wroteshort stories and he is considered to be the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. Poe is also credited with contributing to the then emerging genre of science fiction.

Edgar Allen Poe was the first well-known American to try to live by writing alone. He was seriously disadvantaged by the lack of an international copyright law. American publishers often pirated copies of British works rather than paying for new work by their fellow Americans.

During his lifetime, Edgar Allan Poe was mainly recognized as a literary critic. His fellow critic James Russell Lowell called him "the most discriminating, philosophical, and fearless critic upon imaginative works who has written in America", though he questioned if Poe occasionally used prussic acid instead of ink.

Poe was also known as a writer of fiction and became one of the first American authors of the 19th century to become more popular in Europe than in the United States. Poe is particularly respected in France, in part due to early translations by Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire's translations became definitive renditions of Poe's work throughout Europe.

Poe's early detective fiction tales starring the fictitious C. Auguste Dupin laid the groundwork for future detectives in literature. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, "Each [of Poe's detective stories] is a root from which a whole literature has developed.... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?"

The Mystery Writers of America have named their awards for excellence in the genre the "Edgars". Poe's work also influenced science fiction, notably Jules Verne, who wrote a sequel to Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket called An Antarctic Mystery, also known as The Sphinx of the Ice Fields. Science fiction author H. G. Wells noted, "Pym tells what a very intelligent mind could imagine about the south polar region a century ago.

Edgar Allan Poe Audio Books Download

• 13 Tales of SonicHorror - Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1
  1. The Tell-Tale Heart - When a man is killed because of his deformed eye, his heart seeks revenge. 2. A Descent Into The Maelstrom, and more.
• 13 Tales of SonicHorror - Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2
  1. The Raven - A message from beyond the grave takes an inviting and terrifying form, and more.
• 13 Tales of SonicHorror - Volume 1
  1. From Beyond - by Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( H. P. Lovecraft ), and more.
• 13 Tales of SonicHorror - Volume 2
  1. The Picture In The House - by Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( H. P. Lovecraft ), and others.
• 13 Tales of SonicHorror - Volume 3
  13 SonicMovies from SonicMovie: 1. Pickman's Model - by Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( H. P. Lovecraft), and others.
• 13 Tales of SonicHorror - Volume 4
  13 SonicMovies from SonicMovie: 1. Arthur Jermyn - by Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( H. P. Lovecraft ) - and 12 more !
• A Descent Into The Maelstrom
  A SonicMovie form SonicMovie - A Descent Into The Maelstrom - Trapped within the Moskoe-Strom - the immense whirlpool of the Maelstrom - after a fierce storm at sea, three brothers struggle t
• Annabel Lee
  An uncommon love in a kingdom by the sea, with a sad uncommon end.
• Bernice
  Bernice - A man's fascination with his wife's teeth ends with tragic consequences.
• Cask of Amontillado, The
  The story is set in 19th century Italy and concerns the deadly revenge taken by the insane narrator on a friend who he claims has insulted him.
• Classic Poe
  The Bells, The Cask of Amontillado • The Tell-Tale Heart • The Fall of the House of Usher • The Raven The Black Cat • Berenice • The Man Who Was All Used-Up.
• Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection, The
  20 of Poe's chilling stories and poems performed by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone.
• Edgar Allan Poe Collection 2
  The second Edgar Allan Poe Collection, including "The Muders in the Rue Morgue".
• Eldorado
  A SonicMovie form SonicMovie - Eldorado - A knight tiring of his search for Eldorado - a place of great wealth - takes the advice of a supernatural creature and continues his search.
• Fall of the House of Usher, The: And Other Stories
  The incomparable Basil Rathbone reads six of Poe's best tales of horror on this recording.
• Fall of the House of Usher, The: Pit and the Pendulum, The: And Other Tales...
  Amazing tales from Edgar Allan Poe, which demonstrate his unique imagination.
• Hop Frog
  Hop Frog - A court jester seeks revenge against the king, who brutalized his love.
• M.S. Found In A Bottle - Manuscript Found In A Bottle
  M.S. Found In A Bottle - Manuscript Found In A Bottle - After a sudden storm at sea, a man finds the entire crew of his ship dead and he and one other passenger the
• Metzengerstein
  A SonicMovie, produced by SonicMovie - Metzengerstein - The generational feud of two royal families comes to a climax, when the last surviving, blood member, of one family dies in a fire set by th
• Murders in the Rue Morgue, The: The Dupin Stories
  Three famous Dupin stories, which provided Poe with the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.
• Some Passages In The Life Of A Lion
  A SonicMovie form SonicMovie - Some Passages In The Life Of A Lion - A classic satire in which we find that those who can . . . do . . . and those who can’t criticize and have higher stature in ou
• Some Words With A Mummy
  Some Words With A Mummy - When researchers, through a scientific accident, reanimate a mummy, they learn the limits of their science.
• Tales of Terror
  Nineteenth-century American poet, critic, and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe is most famous for his cultivation of the macabre in fiction. Four narrators collaborate here on a collection of som...
• The Bells
  A SonicMovie form SonicMovie - The Bells - The arc of a love affair is told in the ringing of 4 distinct bells.
• The Cask of Amontillado - The Casque of Amontillado
  A SonicMovie form SonicMovie - The Cask of Amontillado - The Casque of Amontillado - True to the motto of his family’s coat of arms, “Nemo me impune lacessit” - “No one provokes me with impunity”
• The Conqueror Worm
  The Conqueror Worm - Supernatural entities gather to watch humanity's play of hopes and fears.
• The Fall Of The House Of Usher
  The Fall Of The House Of Usher - During a visit to her dying friend, a woman discovers to her horror that his family and his home are one.
• The Imp Of The Perverse
  After executing the perfect crime, a woman learns that we are sometimes our own worst enemy.
• The Masque Of The Red Death
  A SonicMovie form SonicMovie - The Masque Of The Red Death - When a prince deserts his subjects amidst a ravaging plague to live in secluded opulence with a thousand of his loyal followers, death
• The Oblong Box & The Oval Portrait
  Two SonicMovies, form SonicMovie - The Oblong Box & The Oval Portrait - The Oblong Box - On a voyage, a woman meets her long term "friend" along with his wife to discover they have a mysterious ob
• The Oval Portrait
  The Oval Portrait - To his shock a man discovers the painting of a woman is much, much more than life-like.
• The Pit & The Pendulum
  The Pit & The Pendulum - A woman imprisoned in "The Pit" during the Spanish Inquisition finds herself locked in a deadly battle with her unseen jailers as she strugg
• The Premature Burial
  The Premature Burial - On a dark stormy night a group of friends share tales they've "heard" of others who were mistakenly buried alive. To the shock & horror of he
• The Raven
  The Raven - A message from beyond the grave takes an inviting and terrifying form.
• The Tell-Tale
  The Tell-Tale Heart - When a man is killed because of his deformed eye, his heart seeks revenge.