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Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Gary Kelley, Edgar Allan Poe

It's unfair to just burying Poe in the "Horror" tomb, with a Raven & a Black Cat..Reading this volume I really see how HUGE his imagination was, how it was ahead of his times.From traveling over the ocean by a air transportation... or to the moon..Or inventing the first Detective story ever..Or his delving into the matter, death, soul, mind and even God and free well by hypothesis.Or of course, the delving into the man's Conscience, guilt and self-destruction..There's even kind of Romance, Fantasy, adventure, treasure hunt, code breaking, satire...He inspired Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Arthur Conan Doyle with crime novels,And inspired Jules Verne ,then H G Wells and even recently Andy Weir with his science fiction stories,And so more... just by his wild imagination..So the five stars here are for his originality and innovations in stories..Which is not just little Horror Stories..~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Personal Note:----------In order to enjoy his stories, I read first the Arabic -complete, unbridged- translation of it... then reviewing and fast readin it in its original forum, since Poe use a bit hard language for me and he's got a way in 'digression' sometimes and complex sentences.So I skipped few stories here till I have the translation of it-and even enjoyed some stories that aren't in this edition-, so I'll be back to this book again soon.Mohammed ArabeyFrom 20 April 2017To 6 May 2017
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