Used book – Extraordinary Stories, Edgar Allan POE, Daniel MORTIER, Emmanuel MARTIN, Charles BAUDELAIRE

Edition presented and annotated by Annie Collognat-Barès (Lycée Victor-Hugo), Emmanuel Martin (Université de Paris XIII) and Daniel Mortier (Université de Rouen)

Transfigured by Charles Baudelaire's translations, Edgar Allan Poe, his "spiritual brother," became an immense French writer. "The Pit and the Pendulum" or "The Fall of the House of Usher" are among the most horrifying of these Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires where mystery, sacred horror, excess, and dread lurk. From his poisons, his morbid and supernatural themes, all contemporary fantastic, detective, and science fiction literature proceeds.

Haunted, melancholic texts, traversed by "the angel of the bizarre." This visionary, this hallucinator, was also the author most perfectly master of his art.

Read with the complete text and the preface presenting the work and its author.

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