Nineteenth-century American poet, critic, and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe is most famous for his cultivation of the macabre in fiction. Here is a collection of some of Poe's best known stories: The Tell-Tale Heart, Facts in the Caseof M. Valdemar, Hop Frog, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat, and The Cask of Amontillado.