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Es ist wahr! Nervös, schrecklich nervös war ich und bin ich noch; aber weshalb soll ich wahnsinnig sein? Mein Übel hatte meine Sinne nur geschärft, nicht zerstört oder abgestumpft. Vor allem war mein Gehörsinn außerordentlich empfindlich geworden. Ich hörte alle Dinge, die im Himmel und auf der Erde vor sich gingen, und auch vieles, was in der Hölle geschah. Wie könnte ich also wahnsinnig sein? Es war das Auge.

Es ist wahr! Nervös, schrecklich nervös war ich und bin ich noch; aber weshalb soll ich wahnsinnig sein? Mein Übel hatte meine Sinne nur geschärft, nicht zerstört oder abgestumpft. Vor allem war mein Gehörsinn außerordentlich empfindlich geworden. Ich hörte alle Dinge, die im Himmel und auf der Erde vor sich gingen, und auch vieles, was in der Hölle geschah. Wie könnte ich also wahnsinnig sein? Es war das Auge.

Our generation has COVID-19. In Poe's day, cholera could decimate entire populations. Poe escapes the epidemic in New York City by traveling to a cottage in Northern New York state. Everything is fine until he looks out his window and sees a gigantic beast moving down the hillside across the Hudson.

Today we have ghosts that haunted our ancestors, as well as our own modern revenants, and there appears to be no earthly use trying to banish or exorcise them by such a simple strategy as refusing to believe in them. Since man knows that whether or not he has seen a ghost, presently he will become one, and thus he has become fascinated with the subject. Therefore he creates ghosts, not merely in his own image, but according to his dreams of power.

El narrador está convencido del poder de la hipnosis incluso más allá de la vida y para demostrarlo a la ciencia médica pretende hipnotizar a una persona en trance de muerte y así conseguir mantener la conexión con su espíritu a través de la hipnosis incluso después de haber muerto físicamente. ¿Lo conseguirá?

El tiene una especie de manía compulsiva que le lleva a concentrar su atencion en un objeto de manera obsesiva convirtiéndose en lo que los psicólogos llaman monomanía.La otrora bellísima Berenice va a ir perdiendo su belleza porque.

Flash fiction from the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. A wounded gentleman, with his valet, breaks into an abandoned chateau in the Appennine mountains. The walls of the bedroom in which they situate themselves are decorated entirely with paintings. The gentleman's eyes fall upon a portrait of a young girl. He reads in an accompanying book the story of the portrait's creation and the fate of the subject caused by the artist's obsession with representing the girl with lifelike perfection.

A man rants and raves about people’s gullibility when he encounters the Angel of the Odd who claims to cause weird events. Unconvinced, the cynic drives the angel away and falls asleep. Then, a series of bizarre incidents follows.

"Ligeia" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1838. An unnamed narrator’s beautiful and gifted wife Ligeia, falls ill and dies. After her death, the narrator marries Lady Rowena Trevanion, to whom the same thing happens. As the grief-stricken narrator keeps vigil overnight, he sees Rowena showing signs of life, in a sequence of violent revivals and relapses. When the shrouded Rowena gets up, he recognizes Ligeia, his strange and brilliant first wife. There is, however, a possibility that the narrator experienced a hallucination induced by opium.

Greetings! Welcome to the Language Magic™ dual-language learning series. After you’ve learned the basics from the classroom or one of the many excellent language learning programs out there, it's time to get fluent! The Tell-Tale Heart is one of Poe’s most famous short stories. This dual-language version from Language Magic™ is an original translation optimized to aid language learners on the fast-track to fluency.

En una pequeña villa en Holanda, donde habitan muy pocas personas, especialmente de mayor edad, físicamente con ojos grandes, nariz abultada, gordos y no muy altos, cada uno se encontraba sentado en el sillón de su casa observando a los lejos el reloj de pueblo que está ubicado en el campanario. Todas sus casas eran idénticas, los mismos colores, la misma estructura y la vida de toda la villa giraba en torno a las horas del reloj.

"Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes. Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for the king's striking of his friend and fellow dwarf Trippetta, he dresses the king and his cabinet as orangutans for a masquerade. In front of the king's guests, Hop-Frog murders them all by setting their costumes on fire before escaping with Trippetta.

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further distress the protagonist with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore".

"Tamerlane" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe when he was only 17 years old. Based on a fictionalized account of the 14th century conqueror known as Tamerlane, it was first published in the 1827 collection Tamerlane and Other Poems. The choice of an eastern figure by a western writer was unusual for that era. In the poem, the protagonist sacrifices his love for a young woman in order to pursue a life of conquest, but on his deathbed he regrets the decision.

Greetings! Welcome to the Language Magic™ dual-language learning series. After you’ve learned the basics from the classroom or one of the many excellent language learning programs out there, it's time to get fluent! Discover that you can relax and enjoy the story while absorbing the language as you listen, and you can listen to it over and over until you find you can understand it completely in the language you are learning.

¡Saludos! Bienvenido a la serie de aprendizaje bilingüe Language Magic™. Después de que hayas aprendido lo básico del aula o en alguno de los excelentes programas de aprendizaje de idiomas que hay por ahí, ¡es hora de dominar el idioma! Es cierto que ganar fluidez en un idioma es una gran cuesta para escalar. Pero también es cierto que hay diferentes maneras de subir esa colina. La forma más rápida es la inmersión total. Vivir en el país que habla la lengua. Pero la mayoría de nosotros no podemos hacer eso.

Un hombre, partiendo de un afecto en principio amistoso, termina casándose en un enlace desapasionado con Morella, mujer culta y con talento con el que conversa sobre asuntos filosóficos y metafísicos. A pesar de una admiración creciente, el hombre desea la muerte de su esposa. Tras el fallecimiento de ésta, la hija de la pareja crecerá siendo una reproducción exacta de su madre.

El barril amontillado, Silencio, El pozo y el pendulo, El cuervo, El entierro prematuro, El retrato oval, El gato negro, La casa de los usher.

Este breve relato escrito por Edgar Allan Poe en 1835 es una meritoria narración hecha por un muerto, el propio narrador en primera persona que nos advierte que ha partido hace mucho tiempo a la región de las sombras y se encuentra escribiendo su testimonio de vida oscurecida con un punzón de hierro.

Edgar Allan Poe fue un escritor, poeta, crítico y periodista romántico​​ estadounidense, generalmente reconocido como uno de los maestros universales del relato corto, del cual fue uno de los primeros practicantes en su país. Fue renovador de la novela gótica, recordado especialmente por sus cuentos de terror.