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The Essential Edgar Allan Poe

Read by Kerry Shale, John Chancer and William Roberts

The Essential Edgar Allan Poe
Chancer provides a simple yet engaging reading of Poe’s biography. Suitably macabre mood music marks transitions between the selections.

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The Essential Edgar Allan Poe

Read by Kerry Shale, John Chancer and William Roberts

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Chancer provides a simple yet engaging reading of Poe’s biography. Suitably macabre mood music marks transitions between the selections.

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Released to coincide with the two-hundredth anniversary of the author’s birth in January 1809, this selection of well-loved chilling tales from the master of the supernatural is a perfect Christmas gift. The short stories include The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This release also features additional poetry by Poe and a new biography especially written for Naxos AudioBooks by Roy McMillan.

  • Release date: 1st Dec 2008
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Catalogue number: NA692112
  • Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged)
Work length1:29:34
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Track length9:36
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged): Residing in Paris during the spring…
Track length5:27
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged): We were strolling one night…
Track length6:53
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged): Not long after this…
Track length3:45
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged): The next day's paper…
Track length7:04
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged): Four of the above named witnesses…
Track length9:29
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged): This is one of those miserable thoroughfares…
Track length3:58
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged): 'I am now awaiting,' continued he…
Track length5:32
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged): 'Let us now transport ourselves…'
Track length7:12
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged): 'The next question…'
Track length3:42
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged): At these words…
Track length5:54
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged): I felt a creeping of the flesh…
Track length8:15
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged): The front door of the house…
Track length4:35
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Unabridged): What he stated was, in substance, this…
Track length8:12
Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum (Unabridged)
Work length42:37
  • Recording Venue: Q Sound, London
The Pit and the Pendulum
Track length8:17
The Pit and the Pendulum (Unabridged): So far I had not opened my eyes…
Track length7:30
The Pit and the Pendulum (Unabridged): In the confusion attending my fall…
Track length9:31
The Pit and the Pendulum (Unabridged): I could no longer doubt the doom…
Track length7:28
The Pit and the Pendulum (Unabridged): Scarcely had I dropped my head…
Track length9:51
Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart (Unabridged)
Work length15:53
  • Recording Venue: Q Sound, London
The Tell-Tale Heart
Track length5:07
The Tell-Tale Heart (Unabridged): I kept quite still and said nothing…
Track length5:15
The Tell-Tale Heart (Unabridged): If still you think me mad…
Track length5:31
Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher (Unabridged)
Work length50:23
  • Recording Venue: Q Sound, London
The Fall of the House of Usher
Track length7:39
The Fall of the House of Usher (Unabridged): Shaking off from my spirit…
Track length5:43
The Fall of the House of Usher (Unabridged): In the manner of my friend…
Track length7:14
The Fall of the House of Usher (Unabridged): I shall ever bear about me…
Track length6:04
The Fall of the House of Usher (Unabridged): I well remember…
Track length7:00
The Fall of the House of Usher (Unabridged): And now some days…
Track length4:08
The Fall of the House of Usher (Unabridged): The impetuous fury…
Track length5:56
The Fall of the House of Usher (Unabridged): Oppressed, as I certainly was…
Track length6:39
Edgar Allan Poe: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (Unabridged)
Work length25:54
  • Recording Venue: Q Sound, London
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Track length7:40
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (Unabridged): When they had gone…
Track length9:45
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (Unabridged): I now feel that I have reached…
Track length4:44
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (Unabridged): From this period…
Track length3:45
Edgar Allan Poe: The Premature Burial (Unabridged)
Work length40:16
  • Recording Venue: Q Sound, London
The Premature Burial
Track length6:36
The Premature Burial (Unabridged): In the year 1810…
Track length6:25
The Premature Burial (Unabridged): The mention of the galvanic battery…
Track length5:59
The Premature Burial (Unabridged): For several years…
Track length5:29
The Premature Burial (Unabridged): From the innumerable images…
Track length6:07
The Premature Burial (Unabridged): They arrived an epoch…
Track length3:48
The Premature Burial (Unabridged): And now, amid all my infinite…
Track length5:52
Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado (Unabridged)
Work length17:23
  • Recording Venue: Q Sound, London
The Cask of Amontillado
Track length4:40
The Cask of Amontillado (Unabridged): There were no attendants…
Track length5:30
The Cask of Amontillado (Unabridged): At the most remote end…
Track length7:13
Edgar Allan Poe: The Masque of the Red Death (Unabridged)
Work length16:52
  • Recording Venue: Q Sound, London
The Masque of the Red Death
Track length7:21
The Masque of the Red Death (Unabridged): But in spite of these things…
Track length5:23
The Masque of the Red Death (Unabridged): When the eyes of Prince Prospero…
Track length4:08
Edgar Allan Poe: Tamerlane (Unabridged)
Work length14:56
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Tamerlane (Unabridged): Tamerlane
Track length14:56
Edgar Allan Poe: Dreams (Unabridged)
Work length2:19
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Dreams (Unabridged): Dreams
Track length2:19
Edgar Allan Poe: Spirits of the dead (Unabridged)
Work length1:42
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Spirits of the dead
Track length1:42
Edgar Allan Poe: A dream (Unabridged)
Work length1:01
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
A dream (Unabridged): A dream
Track length1:01
Edgar Allan Poe: The Lake
Work length1:28
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Edgar Allan Poe: The bowers whereat, in dreams I see…
Work length0:59
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Edgar Allan Poe: Fairy-Land (Unabridged)
Work length2:03
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Fairy-Land (Unabridged): Fairy-Land
Track length2:03
Edgar Allan Poe: To Helen (Unabridged)
Work length0:59
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
To Helen (Unabridged): To Helen
Track length0:59
Edgar Allan Poe: Israfel (Unabridged)
Work length2:26
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Israfel (Unabridged): Israfel
Track length2:26
Edgar Allan Poe: Lenore (Unabridged)
Work length2:56
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Lenore (Unabridged): Lenore
Track length2:56
Edgar Allan Poe: Sonnets: To Zante
Work length1:13
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Sonnets: To Zante: Sonnet: To Zante
Track length1:13
Edgar Allan Poe: Sonnet: The Haunted Palace
Work length2:26
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Edgar Allan Poe: Sonnet: Silence (Unabridged)
Work length1:17
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Sonnet: Silence (Unabridged): Sonnet: Silence
Track length1:17
Edgar Allan Poe: The conqueror worm (Unabridged)
Work length2:12
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
The conqueror worm (Unabridged): The conqueror worm
Track length2:12
Edgar Allan Poe: Dreamland (Unabridged)
Work length3:08
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Dreamland (Unabridged): Dreamland
Track length3:08
Edgar Allan Poe: Eulalie (Unabridged)
Work length1:20
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Eulalie (Unabridged): Eulalie
Track length1:20
Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven
Work length9:25
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Edgar Allan Poe: Not long ago, the writer of these lines… (Unabridged)
Work length1:55
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Not long ago, the writer of these lines…
Track length1:55
Edgar Allan Poe: Ulalume (Unabridged)
Work length5:10
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Ulalume (Unabridged): Ulalume
Track length5:10
Edgar Allan Poe: The Bells (Unabridged)
Work length5:24
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
The Bells (Unabridged): The Bells
Track length5:24
Edgar Allan Poe: A dream within a dream (Unabridged)
Work length1:20
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
A dream within a dream
Track length1:20
Edgar Allan Poe: For Annie (Unabridged)
Work length3:46
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
For Annie (Unabridged): For Annie
Track length3:46
Edgar Allan Poe: To my mother (Unabridged)
Work length0:57
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
To my mother (Unabridged): To my mother
Track length0:57
Edgar Allan Poe: Annabel Lee (Unabridged)
Work length2:26
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Annabel Lee (Unabridged): Annabel Lee
Track length2:26
Roy McMillan: Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography (Unabridged)
Work length1:17:58
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography
Track length7:56
Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography (Unabridged): Edgar Poe was born on 19 January 1809…
Track length7:55
Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography (Unabridged): Edgar Poe was a good student…
Track length7:09
Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography (Unabridged): By the end of 1828…
Track length8:07
Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography (Unabridged): The years between 1831 and 1835…
Track length7:12
Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography (Unabridged): Poe is hardly known for his journalism…
Track length7:11
Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography (Unabridged): The family moved to New York…
Track length7:24
Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography (Unabridged): Once Virginia had started to display…
Track length5:52
Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography (Unabridged): Whatever the truth…
Track length5:47
Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography (Unabridged): This tangle of emotional attachments…
Track length6:28
Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography (Unabridged): Later, while still in what can only…
Track length6:57

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Chancer provides a simple yet engaging reading of Poe’s biography. Suitably macabre mood music marks transitions between the selections.
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