Baudelaire was right: this news is extraordinary.
A man reaches the moon in a balloon, another transforms base metals into gold, the dead appear to drag the living to the tomb, curses are fulfilled.
Edgar Poe was fascinated by dreams, spiritualism, metempsychosis but also the sciences. He created an unreal world that is all the more bewitching when the fantastic is painted with logic and thoroughness.
This American writer felt all his life the perversity that exists in every being. Man is ceaselessly and at the same time homicide and suicide, murderer and executioner.
“Edgar Poe has taken the royal road of great art. He discovered the strange in the banal, the new in the old, the pure in the impure. Here is a complete being, ”said Valéry.

The Extraordinary Stories of Edgar Allan Poe Streaming Audio. Librivox registration
Immerse yourself with pleasure in this classic by Edgar Allan Poe. Quality recording. Ideal in transport or in these times of confinement. Audiobook recorded by the Librivox website. The work is in the public domain.