2019原版书·英文原版
导演：Allan Poe
This work is a collection of previously-published short stories from the dark pen of Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840. Poe wrote the now-famous quote defending himself from the criticism that his tales were part of "Germanism" In preface of this book, "If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany but of the soul". The collection was dedicated to Colonel William Drayton, anonymous author of The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists. The "arabesque" stories focus on a single aspect of a character, often psychological, such as "The Fall of the House of Usher". A distant relative of Poe, modern scholar Harry Lee Poe, wrote that "grotesque" means "horror", which is gory and often disgusting, and "arabesque" means "terror", which forsakes the blood and gore for the sake of frightening the reader.[8] Even so, accurately defining Poe's intentions for the terms is difficult and subdividing his tales into one category or another is even more difficult. This work is a collection of previously-published short stories from the dark pen of Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.
