This four-volume edition with translations by Arno Schmidt and Hans Wollschläger is the authoritative and by far the most comprehensive edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe in the German-speaking world. Released for the 200th birthday of the great American author, it comes in a particularly elegant format: bound in gray linen, on thin paper, with thread stitching and a ribbon bookmark. It gathers his famous detective stories, the fantastic and mysterious novels, as well as Poe's poems, journalistic works, essays, and a selection of his letters. All texts have been newly translated for this edition and are expertly annotated. Edgar Allan Poe has always been popular with his eerie tales, nocturnal pieces, horror, nightmares, and the escape into the afterlife beyond the grave. However, it was not until the 20th century that his visions were taken seriously in their uniqueness.