Just then I heard a faint moan, and I knew it was a moan of mortal terror… the muffled sound that rises from the depths of the soul. These are tales of murder, mystery, and madness, revealing the author’s feverish imagination at its most creative. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books celebrating Penguin’s 80th anniversary. Little Black Classics celebrates the wide range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across the centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a flower garden in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here you will find stories both lyrical and ferocious; poems that are epic and intimate; essays that are satirical and inspiring; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Available works by Poe in Penguin Classics include The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Portable Edgar Allan Poe, and The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.