Part of the Naxos AudioBooks 'Essential' series, this CD combines some of Poe's best-loved ghost stories, plus a selection of poetry including 'The Raven' and an additional biography. This audiobook features 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Tell-Tale Heart', 'The Masque of the Red Death',...
Mark never heard the Mauser shot for the bullet came ahead of the sound. There was only the massive shock in the upper part of his body, and then he was hurled backwards with a violence that drove the air from his lungs.The earth opened before him, and as he fell, there was a sensation of being engulfed in a swirling vortex of blackness and he knew for just a fleeting instant of time that he was dead'