Format - MP3, Read by Kirill Grebenschikov. Duration: 6 hours, 10 min.In Russian and English. Edgar Allen Poe was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. This collection includes the following stories: 1. The Mask of the Red Death, 2. The Fall of the House of Usher, 3. The Pit and the Pendulum, 4. The Oval Portrait, 5. Ligeria, numbers 6-10 are the same stories translated into Russian.
