Where to Start with Edgar Allan Poe
- Best entry point → The Raven
- Best standalone → The Cask of Amontillado: Edgar Allan Poe Biography
- Start the Gilded Nightmares – Timeless British Library Books series → The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
- What fans keep coming back to → The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
- Best narrator for Edgar Allan Poe → The Tell-Tale Heart - Il cuore rivelatore / The Premature Burial - La sepoltura prematura
- Highest rated by listeners → The Fall of the House of Usher: Edgar Allan Poe's Haunting Tale of Family Secrets and Tragic Decay
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The Raven
Narrated by Dominic West
★ 4.55 ABR Score (173.6K ratings)★ 4.29 Goodreads (172.0K) ★ 4.79 Audible (1.6K) - 2
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
Gilded Nightmares – Timeless British Library Books
Narrated by B. J. Harrison
★ 4.28 ABR Score (245.4K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (244.9K) ★ 4.59 Audible (484) - 3
The Cask of Amontillado: Edgar Allan Poe Biography
Narrated by B.J. Harrison
★ 4.13 ABR Score (89.3K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (89.0K) ★ 4.58 Audible (304) - 4
The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble
★ 4.13 ABR Score (297.3K ratings)★ 4.4 Goodreads (297.3K) ★ 4.59 Audible (29)36h 34m listening time • Released 2022Poe's complete works — the inventor of the detective story, the master of gothic horror, all in one essential collection.
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The Fall of the House of Usher: Edgar Allan Poe's Haunting Tale of Family Secrets and Tragic Decay
Narrated by William Roberts
★ 4.08 ABR Score (90.7K ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (90.4K) ★ 4.44 Audible (297) - 6
The Tell-Tale Heart - Il cuore rivelatore / The Premature Burial - La sepoltura prematura
Gilded Nightmares – Timeless British Library Books
by Edgar Allan Poe, Elisabetta Querci
Narrated by William Roberts
★ 3.99 ABR Score (244.9K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (244.9K) ★ 4.14 Audible (7) - 7
Annabel Lee
The dark Artifices
by Edgar Allan Poe, Gilles Tibo
Narrated by Patrick Lawlor
★ 3.98 ABR Score (12.0K ratings)★ 4.32 Goodreads (12.0K) ★ 4.41 Audible (22) - 8
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2 - Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe • Book 2
by Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Barefoot
Narrated by Bernard Setaro Clark
★ 3.93 ABR Score (2.7K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (2.6K) ★ 4.13 Audible (48)10h 6m listening time • Released 2012 - 9
The Black Cat: Edgar Allan Poe Biography
Narrated by Gil Anders
★ 3.90 ABR Score (58.3K ratings)★ 4.03 Goodreads (58.3K) ★ 4 Audible (6) - 10
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume II (Edgar Allan Poe Classics Collection)
The Edgar Allan Poe Collection • Book 2
Narrated by David Ian Davies
★ 3.88 ABR Score (2.6K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (2.6K) ★ 3.83 Audible (40)4h 47m listening time • Released 2006 - 11
The Masque of the Red Death : Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by Stuart Summers
★ 3.85 ABR Score (48.1K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (48.1K) ★ 5 Audible (2) - 12
The Gold Bug
by Edgar Allan Poe, Tobias Hill
Narrated by Chris Lutkin
★ 3.76 ABR Score (7.7K ratings)★ 3.7 Goodreads (7.6K) ★ 4.3 Audible (76)1h 26m listening time • Released 2017 - 13
William Wilson: (Edgar Allan Poe Masterpiece Collection)
Narrated by Cathy Dobson
★ 3.73 ABR Score (5.7K ratings)★ 3.78 Goodreads (5.7K) ★ 4.8 Audible (10) - 14
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Narrated by William Roberts
★ 3.67 ABR Score (5.5K ratings)★ 3.7 Goodreads (5.5K) ★ 4.17 Audible (6) - 15
The oval portrait (Edgar Allan Poe Collection nº 3)
Narrated by Cathy Dobson
★ 3.66 ABR Score (7.8K ratings)★ 3.72 Goodreads (7.8K) ★ 5 Audible (2) - 16
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural
by Stephen Jones, Henry James, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot
Narrated by Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot
★ 3.62 ABR Score (477 ratings)★ 3.68 Goodreads (339) ★ 3.99 Audible (138)16h 45m listening time • Released 2012Three stellar narrators bring genuine personality to a curated horror collection that traces the genre's DNA through its finest practitioners, making this far more than just an anthology.
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The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether
Narrated by John MacDonald, Ghizela Rowe
★ 3.62 ABR Score (1.7K ratings)★ 3.76 Goodreads (1.7K) ★ 4 Audible (3) - 18
Coffins
Vampire Archives • Book 3
by Otto Penzler, Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Paul Wilson, Scott Brick, Robertson Dean, Steve West, Robin Sachs, Mark Bramhall, John H. Mayer, Ryan Gesell, Rob Shapiro
Narrated by Scott Brick, Robertson Dean, Steve West, Robin Sachs, Harlan Ellison, Mark Bramhall, John H. Mayer, Ryan Gesell, Rob Shapiro
★ 3.58 ABR Score (111 ratings)★ 3.6 Goodreads (83) ★ 4.04 Audible (28)13h 52m listening time • Released 2010 - 19
The Imp of the Perverse
Narrated by Larry G. Jones
★ 3.57 ABR Score (2.7K ratings)★ 3.66 Goodreads (2.7K) ★ 4 Audible (1) - 20
The Haunted Palace
Narrated by Lissa Lia, K. Anderson Yancy
★ 3.52 ABR Score (385 ratings)★ 3.54 Goodreads (383) ★ 2.5 Audible (2) - 21
Metzengerstein
Narrated by Cathy Dobson
★ 3.47 ABR Score (2.9K ratings)★ 3.23 Goodreads (2.9K) ★ 5 Audible (3)
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