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Edgar Allan Poe
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Format: Book
Grade Level: 6 and Up (ages 11 and up)
ISBN: 0486268756
Page Count: 128
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 8 1/4
Nine gripping tales of psychological terror and the supernatural, by the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum" and 4 others.

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