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Big Read 2013 -- If You Like "Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe"...
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Dracula
by
Bram Stoker Details
Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. A timeless tale of Gothic horror and romance.
Duel : Terror Stories
by
Richard Matheson Details
Duel, Steven Spielberg's acclaimed first film, was adapted by Richard Matheson from his story of the same name. But "Duel" is only one of the classic suspense tales in this treasure trove of terror, which also contains Matheson's legendary first story, "Born of Man and Woman," as well as several stunning shockers that inspired memorable episodes of The Twilight Zone.
Entombed
by
Linda Fairstein Details
When a former residence of Edgar Allan Poe is demolished, a human skeleton is found behind the walls. Soon, Cooper is digging into Poe's tormented life, hoping to discover a clue that will break open the case.
For Edgar
by
Sheldon Rusch Details
A series of bizarre and baffling crimes draws Special Agent Elizabeth Taylor Hewitt into the pursuit of a madman calling himself The Raven who is paying homage to the literary works of Edgar Allan Poe with his twisted and violent killings.
Night Shift
by
Stephen King Details
Nineteen of King's most unsettling short pieces: bizarre tales of dark doings and unthinkable acts from the twilight regions where horror and madness take on eerie, unearthly forms, where noises in the walls and shadows by the bed are always signs of something dreadful on the prowl.
Not Quite Dead
by
John MacLachlan Gray Details
During his less than successful reading tour of America, Charles Dickens finds himself sharing dilapidated quarters--and swapping story ideas--with Edgar Allan Poe, who has faked his own death in order to escape the Irish mob.
Psycho
by
Robert Block Details
Mary Crane believes she has found shelter from the storm when she checks into the Bates Motel, but the knife-wielding owner, Norman Bates, soon rips her piece of mind to shreds and the nightmare begins.
Pym
by
Mat Johnson Details
A comic journey into the ultimate land of whiteness by an unlikely band of African American adventurers. Jaynes is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe's only novel ; when he discovers a crude slave narrative that seems to confirm the reality of Poe's fiction, he resolves to seek out Tsalal, imagining it to be a key to his personal salvation.
The Death Dealer
by
Heather Graham Details
As a killer obsessed by Poe's macabre tales selects his victims from members of a literary society devoted to the master writer, author Genevieve O'Brien, fearing that her mother will be next, enlists the aid of P.I. Joe Connolly to stop the murders.
The Pale Blue Eye
by
Louis Bayard Details
When a suicide victim's body disappears from the West Point Military Academy, detective Gus Landor gets called in to investigate. After a new cadet, Edgar Allan Poe, approaches Landor with his theory that the man they are looking for is a poet, the duo begins to narrow down suspects all the while dealing with their own personal demons.
The Poe Shadow
by
Matthew Pearl Details
In 1849, the body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave in Baltimore. Concluded by everyone as a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end, one lone admirer, Quentin Clark, puts his own career and reputation at risk in a crusade to salvage Poe's. Pearl combines fact with fiction to reconstruct Poe's final days in this literary historical mystery.
The Tell-Tale Corpse
by
Harold Schechter Details
Heading to Massachusetts in search of a cure for his ailing wife, Edgar Allan Poe becomes embroiled in an investigation into a series of brutal murders, joining forces with Louisa May Alcott to bring together the clues in seemingly unrelated cases.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by
Shirley Jackson Details
Since the mysterious death of four family members, the superstitious Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood, her ailing uncle Julian, and agoraphobic sister Constance have lived in a bizarre but contented state of isolation. But when cousin Charles arrives in search of the Blackwood fortune, a terrible family secret is revealed. A treat for fans of Gothic mystery and suspense.
Updated 02/26/2013
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