Six Creepy Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Poe didn't need monsters or gore. He needed only a beating heart beneath the floorboards, a mask at a carnival, a cat with a white splotch. In these six tales, he proved that the most terrifying things live inside our own skulls. The Telltale Heart drags you into a murderer's justifications as he insists he can still hear that terrible pulse. The Red Death arrives despite the prince's locked doors and sealed windows, because death cannot be kept out by walls or privilege. The Black Cat is a confession without remorse, a man who destroys everything he loves and then blames the animal. The Raven sits on the bust of Pallas and repeats one word forever. This is psychological horror at its most precise: each story is a machine built to produce dread through rhythm, suggestion, and the slow unraveling of a narrator who may or may not be trustworthy. A century and a half later, these stories still work like a charm.