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El narrador está convencido del poder de la hipnosis incluso más allá de la vida y para demostrarlo a la ciencia médica pretende hipnotizar a una persona en trance de muerte y así conseguir mantener la conexión con su espíritu a través de la hipnosis incluso después de haber muerto físicamente. ¿Lo conseguirá?

El Gato Negro este corto pero terrorífico relato , quizás sea de los que mejor expresa las atormentadas batallas que tenían lugar en la mente de Edgar Allan Poe. El papel todo lo soporta y en toda obra se puede encontrar una u otra simbología. Para mí el gato negro que tanto atormenta al protagonista, no es otra cosa que la idea del mal, que constantemente se encuentra en tránsito del subconsciente al consciente y que o bien se tiene una gran fortaleza de voluntad o acaba obligándonos a hacer cosas que pueden ser terribles.

Hallo! Willkommen zur zweisprachigen Lernserie Language Magic™. Nachdem Sie die Grundlagen aus dem Klassenzimmer oder einem der vielen hervorragenden Sprachlernprogramme gelernt haben, ist es Zeit, die Sprache flüssig zu sprechen! „Der Rabe“, „Das Fass von Amontillado“ und „Das verräterische Herz“ sind einige der berühmtesten Werke von Poe. Diese zweisprachigen Versionen von „Das Fass von Amontillado“ und „Das verräterische Herz“ von Language Magic™ sind Originalübersetzungen, die Sprachlernern helfen sollen, die Sprache fließend zu sprechen.

As with most stories by Poe, there are far deeper meanings as the narrator takes us through his madness. Pluto his cat becomes a symbol of what is wrong in his, the narrator's, life. He tortures Pluto in a drunken stupor by cutting out his eye. He feels guilt for hurting a creature he once loved that also once loved him. The narrator continues to spiral into his web of self-destruction until he is penning his story the night before he will meet the same fate he imposed upon Pluto.  

Flash fiction from the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. A wounded gentleman, with his valet, breaks into an abandoned chateau in the Appennine mountains. The walls of the bedroom in which they situate themselves are decorated entirely with paintings. The gentleman's eyes fall upon a portrait of a young girl. He reads in an accompanying book the story of the portrait's creation and the fate of the subject caused by the artist's obsession with representing the girl with lifelike perfection. 

A man rants and raves about people’s gullibility when he encounters the Angel of the Odd who claims to cause weird events. Unconvinced, the cynic drives the angel away and falls asleep. Then, a series of bizarre incidents follows. 

Greetings! Welcome to the Language Magic™ dual-language learning series. After you’ve learned the basics from the classroom or one of the many excellent language learning programs out there, it's time to get fluent! With our dual-language audiobooks, Language Magic™ bridges the gap between where you are and where you want to be. The story alternates continuously between your native language and the language you’re learning. Get fluent the fun and easy way!

After you’ve learned the basics from one of the many excellent language learning programs out there, it's time to get fluent, the easy way! This dual-language version of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, is part of the Language MagicTM learning series. This English-German version is for English speakers desiring to gain fluency in German by reading and, with the audiobook, repeated listening to an entertaining story delivered sentence-by-sentence in English and German.

Greetings! Welcome to the Language Magic™ dual-language learning series. After you’ve learned the basics from the classroom or one of the many excellent language learning programs out there, it's time to get fluent! The Tell-Tale Heart is one of Poe’s most famous short stories. This dual-language version from Language Magic™ is an original translation optimized to aid language learners on the fast-track to fluency. 

A collection of 10 of the greatest and most popular short stories by the master himself. The stories are creepy, scary and frightening. Filled with murder and terror, they will keep you hanging on until the end. The stories are well told by the talented narrator, who can bring you right into the suspense and action. Turn off the lights, lights a candle, press "Play", and settle in for a suspenseful thrill.

En una pequeña villa en Holanda, donde habitan muy pocas personas, especialmente de mayor edad, físicamente con ojos grandes, nariz abultada, gordos y no muy altos, cada uno se encontraba sentado en el sillón de su casa observando a los lejos el reloj de pueblo que está ubicado en el campanario. Todas sus casas eran idénticas, los mismos colores, la misma estructura y la vida de toda la villa giraba en torno a las horas del reloj.

La "Chute de la Maison Usher" est l'une des nouvelles d'Edgar Poe les plus connues. Elle a été traduite en français par Charles Baudelaire. Le narrateur se rend chez son ami Roderick Usher, malade. Roderick et sa soeur semblent souffrir d'une grande anxiété. 

"Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes. Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for the king's striking of his friend and fellow dwarf Trippetta, he dresses the king and his cabinet as orangutans for a masquerade. In front of the king's guests, Hop-Frog murders them all by setting their costumes on fire before escaping with Trippetta.

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado" [a.mon.ti.ˈʝa.ðo]) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a person being buried alive - in this case, by immurement.

"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also, to a certain degree, a hoax, as it was published without claiming to be fictional, and many at the time of publication (1845) took it to be a factual account. Poe toyed with this for a while before admitting it was a work of pure fiction in his marginalia.

"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". In both, a murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself unassailable, but eventually breaks down and reveals himself, impelled by a nagging reminder of his guilt.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads Edgar Alan Poe's classic The Pit and the Pendulum, taking us back to the Spanish Inquisition. Vendetti's performance takes us into the dungeon where we can all but feel the sharp edge of the deadly pendulum brushing across our body, hear the ravenous rats scurrying about the cell, and worst of all, the final terror. The panic of Poe's narrator becomes palpable as you listen to this classic tale so well-narrated.

Un joven matrimonio lleva una vida hogareña apacible en compañía de varios animales domésticos, entre ellos un misterioso gato negro. Todo cambia cuando el marido empieza a dejarse arrastrar por la bebida. El alcohol le vuelve irascible y en uno de sus accesos de furia acaba con la vida del animal. Un segundo gato aparece en sus vidas y diversos acontecimientos terribles se suceden.

"Un soir, comme j'étais appuyé sur le bastingage de la dunette, j'observai un très singulier nuage, isolé, vers le nord-ouest. Il était remarquable autant par sa couleur que parce qu'il était le premier que nous eussions vu depuis notre départ de Batavia. Je le surveillai attentivement jusqu'au coucher du soleil ; alors, il se répandit tout d'un coup de l'est à l'ouest, cernant l'horizon d'une ceinture précise de vapeur, et apparaissant comme une longue ligne de côte très basse."

"Tamerlane" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe when he was only 17 years old. Based on a fictionalized account of the 14th century conqueror known as Tamerlane, it was first published in the 1827 collection Tamerlane and Other Poems. The choice of an eastern figure by a western writer was unusual for that era. In the poem, the protagonist sacrifices his love for a young woman in order to pursue a life of conquest, but on his deathbed he regrets the decision.