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American Horror: Five Terrifying Tales

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the first masters of modern short stories and modernist poetry. But he is best remembered for his strange style of horror, with characters who cannot be forgotten. A man who drains away his wife’s life to make his painting seem alive; an animal lover who becomes obsessed by a cat; a young man obsessed by an old man’s blue eye; and a man hypnotized just before he dies who then…

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Disturbing situations; fear and madness; the supernatural; gothic settings
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CEFR Level B2
Level Secondary
Language English
Type Fiction (classic)
Genre Mystery and horror
Publisher Black Cat
Year 2010
Number of Pages 112
Number of activities 66
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