"I know not how it was - but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit..."

Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre… Recurring themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning. Two of his most famous pieces, The Pit & The Pendulum and The Fall Of The House Of Usher appear here unabridged and read by William Roberts. The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, with its dungeon of death, and the overhanging gloom on the House of Usher demonstrate unforgettably the unique imagination of Poe.