Edgar Allan Poe was a man of rare talent and a tragic fate. His life was as full of mysteries as his works. A master poet, a pioneer of the detective genre, and an author of adventure, mystical, and philosophical novels, Edgar Allan Poe has earned a place of honor in world literature. His mysterious stories, in which the line between reality and fiction is difficult to discern, and terror overwhelms all other senses, captivate and compel us to believe in the inexplicable. They allow the reader to gain a full understanding of the writer's multifaceted talent—an unrivaled creator of phantasmagorias, mystical allusions, and nightmares.