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The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection

By: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone
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About this listen

 Universally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe's dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre. Here, 20 of Poe's most chilling stories and poems are performed by two of his most brilliant interpreters: Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. Included are The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, Bells, The Gold Bug, and many more!©2000 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., All Rights Reserved. (P)2000 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Horror Scary Short Stories Fiction Heartfelt

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Critic reviews

2000 Winner of Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award: Archival Reissue
"Superb renderings...[Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone] know this material well...and know how to make it chill the listener. It's a romp for them and a delight for us." ( AudioFile)
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the performances as good as one would expect, deliciously hammy especially from Price. only criticism is that often several poems stories bunged into one chapter, and the readers often don't announce title of the piece which makes it difficult to navigate. Audible should do this better.

excellent fun except for editing

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Classic stories. Read by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone giving amazing atmospheric performances. I’ve listened to this repeatedly. A total joy.

Absolutely marvellous

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Anybody wanting to know where to start with Edgar Allan Poe,should look no further then this superb recording.All the classic tales and poems are here and they are read by two of of the "Golden Age Of Hollywoods" greatest orators,Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone.If I had one minor complaint,It would be the lack of title headings and poor chaptering.

The Master Of The Macabre

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Would you listen to The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection again? Why?

Yes

What did you like best about this story?

Some of Poe's finest.

Any additional comments?

As with quite a few audio books I've listened to now the chapters of the audiobook represent downloaded chunks of data and not chapters in a book sense. It can be infuriatingly difficult to find the start of the desired story or poem until you've listened a few times RW and FW a few times. Some other kind reviewers, with more patience than I, have detailed the poems/stories and their start times on other previous reviews.....

Classic literature by classic characters, but....

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These performances (and I chose that word wisely) from Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone are absolutely incredible. They are obviously vintage and you can hear the acoustics and occassional background noise, but this all adds to the intensity and atmosphere created by both of these great actors.

I could listen to this again and again if it wasn't for one thing; the chaptering / formatting makes this impossible to pickup what you're listening to and where it starts/ends. It's not even that the end of an Audible chapter marks the end of a story, as sometimes you're 30 seconds into the next chapter before a tale ends. This is really inexcusable as is the fact there are no titles to the chapter or the stories themselves.

In summary a brilliant collection of classic tales, read/performed fantastically, but sadly cobbled together to make accessing it really difficult.

Amazing performances but atrocious formatting.

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Awesome and intimate, Price and Rathbone at their best. Audible need to title the stories properly though. it's hard to pick out a particular storey.

simply stunning, read by the best

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It was ok. I am not a huge fan of poems in general and I think that is what disappointed me here. Some of the stories are pretty good but I did not click with his style. The narrators were pretty unremarkable as well. Not my favourite.

Weird

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if you don't like putting a black cat into your wall and then being caught at it then these tales are not for you. rathbone and price do poe full justice.

only for the bizarre

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Thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook. Vincent Price and Basil Rathbones narration is sublime! Could not have picked two better actors for this.

I do agree with other reviews that the layout and formatting could’ve been tidied up and it was annoying that there are no titles.

I have included a track list incase anyone would like to know the title.

1. To Marie Louise (Shew)
2. Alone
3. The City in the Sea
4. Berenice
5. The Fall of The House of Usher
6. Ligeia
7. The Haunted Palace
8. The Pit and The Pendulum
9. The Masque of the Red Death
10. The Tell Tale Heart
11. The Gold Bug
12. The Black Cat
13. The Raven
14. The Facts in the case of M. Valdemar
15. The Cask of Amontillado
16. The Bells
17. Annabel Lee
18. Eldorado
19. The Imp of The Perverse
20. Morella

Legendary literature narrated by legendary actors.

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Love these stories all of them, Basil Rathbone is brilliant, Vincent Price I could listen to this man for hours, close your eyes he takes you into the story you feel like you are in it, don’t believe me.......buy it.

Perfect

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