The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

One of the World's greatest and most influential masters of the short story, Edgar Allan Poe has also claimed as the originator of such important styles of fiction. Poe's singular ability to probe into the caverns of the psyche and reveal, through the medium of imaginative prose and poetry, that combination of fear, guilt and obsession common to mankind has insured his permanence amoung the great writers of the world.