Beautiful to die for - Poe for the 21st century. Poe's work was a provocation from the very beginning; he despised the fashionable and unoriginal. Puritanical America punished him with slander and forgetfulness. It was only in France that he found posthumous intellectual exile, when none other than Baudelaire elevated him to the rank he deserved, translating and commenting on his works in five volumes. With this very edition of Poe by Charles Baudelaire, literary modernity begins. Andreas Nohl translates it into German and presents Poe, the great pioneer, at the height of his art in the age of copy & paste and epigones. The present first volume is titled Uncanny Stories: Poe's incomparable tales - from detective stories like "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" to "The Gold-Bug," as well as the grotesques and visionary dream images.