Greatest Mystery Fiction Ever Written (Grapevine edition)

Greatest Mystery Fiction Ever Written this collection include Dracula The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 | The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 | The Woman in White When Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to assist Count Dracula in buying a home in London he learns a number of horrifying things about the man he is representing. Soon after a number of strange occurrences take place in England including the wreckage of an apparent unmanned ship off the coast of Whitby the discovery of strange puncture marks on a young womans neck and raves from a patient at a mental institution about the Master and his impending arrival. Bram Stokers Dracula is considered one of the greatest works of horror literature. It beautifully conjures up the nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters while simultaneously shedding light on the murky areas of Victorian sexuality and desire. This collection (The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2) chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works. Poes works were collected in five hardcover volumes by P. F. Collier & Son in 1903. This is volume 1 and the frontispiece is a colour reproduction of an Arthur E. Becher painting. The Woman in White is known for having an unnerving meeting on a moonlit London street as its opening scene. Involved in the nefarious plots of Sir Percival Glyde and his charming buddy Count Fosco who has a passion for white mice vanilla bonbons and poison Walter finds himself hired as a drawing master to the stunning Laura Fairlie. The Woman in White is the first and most prominent example of the Victorian genre that mixed Gothic horror with psychological realism. It explores issues of identity and insanity through the walkways and halls of English country estates and the insane asylum.