Edgar Allen Poe prägte die amerikanische Horrorliteratur wie kaum ein anderer Schriftsteller. Doch auch die Genres der Kriminalliteratur und Science-Fiction wurden deutlich von Poe beeinflusst.

Diese Werksausgabe präsentiert Ihnen alle bedeutenden Werke des Virtuosen des Grauens.

Egal ob klassische Detektivgeschichten wie "Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue", berühmte Abenteuerliteratur wie "Die denkwürdugen Erlebnisse des Artur Gordon Pym" sowie Gruselschocker wie "Ligeia" oder "Die Maske des roten Todes"... In dieser Sammlung können Sie sich auf über 40 Erzählungen Edgar Allan Poes freuen.

Natürlich ist auch Poes berühmte Lyrik vertreten. "Der Rabe", "Die Glocken" und über 30 Gedichte aus der Feder eines der bedeutesten Autoren Amerikas warten auf Sie in dieser sorgfältig zusammengestellten eBook-Ausgabe.

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Eine Auswahl der Werke, auf die Sie sich freuen können:

- Der Rabe
- Das schwatzende Herz (Das verräterische Herz)
- Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue
- Der Goldkäfer
- Der Geist des Bösen
- Der entwendete Brief
- Der Teufel im Glockenstuhl
- Die Brille (Liebe auf den ersten Blick)
- Der entwendete Brief
- Die schwarze Katze
- Die Scheintoten
- Die Glocken
- Die Maske des roten Todes
- Das Geheimnis der Marie Roget
- König Pest
- Der Mann in der Menge
- Eleonora
- Die Sphinx
- Wassergrube und Pendel
- Metzengerstein
- Schatten
- Ligeia
- Hopp-Frosch (Die Rache des Zwerges)
- Der Mann der Menge
- Der Untergang des Hauses Usher

... und viele mehr !

Evildoers beware! Retribution is at hand, thanks to Britain's best-kept secret agents!!

Certainly no strangers to peculiar occurrences, agents Wellington Books and Eliza Braun are nonetheless stunned to observe a fellow passenger aboard Britain's latest hypersteam train suddenly vanish in a dazzling bolt of lightning. They soon discover this is not the only such disappearance . . . with each case going inexplicably unexamined by the Crown.

The fate of England is once again in the hands of an ingenious archivist paired with a beautiful, fearless lady of adventure. And though their foe be fiendishly clever, so then is Mr. Books . . . and Miss Braun still has a number of useful and unusual devices hidden beneath her petticoats.

About the Author

Born in New Zealand, Philippa (Pip) Ballantine has always had her head in a book. A corporate librarian for thirteen years, she has a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Library and Information Science. She is New Zealand's first podcast novelist and has produced four podiobooks. Many of these have been shortlisted for the Parsec Awards, and she has won a Sir Julius Vogel Award. She is also the author of Geist and the soon-to-be-published Spectyr. While New Zealand calls, currently Philippa calls America home.

From Publishers Weekly

Wonder Woman, make way for flame-haired Deacon Sorcha Faris, skilled and ruthless enough to defeat an enormous geist (German for "ghost") about to envelop humankind at the outset of Balantine's (Digital Magic) latest cluttered fantasy. Sorcha's expertise finds her soon ordered to Ulrich, a small community in a remote part of the kingdom "overrun with the unliving." Accompanying her is a new deacon partner whose Sensitive skills will balance her Active gifts. En route they must combat the destruction wrought by the unliving; about to lose a desperate battle with them, they're rescued by Raed Rossin, captain of an Ulrich-bound ship. Raed is Pretender to the throne and plagued with a "Curse" that draws the unliving to him like moths to a flame. When they reach Ulrich, they discover that evil emanates from the Priory itself, permeating the town and determined to destroy everyone in it. Balantine clogs her epic tale with battle after battle, introduces villains with bewildering frequency, and sustains such an unrelenting tension that the exhausted reader finally succumbs to indifference by her story's end. (Oct. 26)
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Review

"Geist is one of the most vividly original books I've read this year."
-Nalini Singh

"An incredibly rich story...Absolutely not to be missed."
-Barb Hendee, co-author of the Noble Dead Saga

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. INTRODUCES THE READER TO THR PIRATE CITY, AND TO A FEW OK ITS PECULIARITIES AND PRACTICES. Pebmit us now, good reader, to introduce you to the top of a house in Algiers. The roofs of the houses in the Pirate City are flat—a most admirable Eastern peculiarity which cannot be too strongly recommended to Western builders. They are, therefore, available as pleasant " terraces," on which you may rise above your cares, to lounge, and smoke—if afflicted with the latter mania—and sip coffee with your wife (wives, if you be a Turk), or romp with your children—if not too dignified—or cultivate flowers, or read in a state of elevated serenity, or admire the magnificent view of the blue bay, backed by the bluer Jurjura mountains, with the snow- topped range of the Lesser Atlas beyond. How much wiser thus to utilize one's house-top than to yield it up, rent-free, to cats and sparrows ! Achmet Pasha, the Dey of Algiers at this time, or rather the pirate-kins, had a thorough appreciation of the roof of his palace, and spent many hours daily on it in consultation with his ministers, or in converse with his wives. As deys went, Achmet was a comparatively respectable man. He thought no more of cutting off a human head than of docking a rat's tail; hut then he did not take a particular pleasure in this employment, and was not naturally cruel, which is more than could be said of many of his predecessors. He was also said to be a kind husband and a fond father, but as no one, save the wives and children in question, knew anything of the inner and private life of the palace, this must for ever remain a matter of uncertainty. There was no doubt, however, that he was a tall, handsome, dignified man, in the prime of life, with a stern eye and a pleasant expression of mouth ; that, ...