Cuentos y poemas

This collection brings together the most remarkable stories by the celebrated master of the short story. Horror erupts hand in hand with the supernatural in pieces such as "The Black Cat," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Premature Burial." The detective genre is represented by the story that inaugurated it: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Meanwhile, "Hop-Frog" distills acerbic humor from its central character, an irreverent jester who takes a very particular revenge into his own hands against the king and his ministers. The edition is completed by a selection of poems in which dark romanticism weaves verses around recurring themes that obsessed Poe: the premature loss of a beloved woman, reality blurring into the darkness of the nightmarish, the afterlife, and death as an element that resonates with the intellect of one who knows himself to be alive and, therefore, exposed to finitude.