The Edgar Allan Poe BBC Radio Collect..., Edgar Allan Poe
The Edgar Allan Poe BBC Radio Collect..., Edgar Allan Poe
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The Edgar Allan Poe BBC Radio Collection
The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart & other works

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Clarke Peters, James Fleet, Andrew Scott, Kerry Shale, Full Cast, Sean Barrett

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2020

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Crime, Classic

Synopsis

Edgar Allan Poe's most celebrated stories, as heard on BBC Radio - plus bonus documentaries and two thrilling original dramas

The master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe has inspired generations of horror writers with his chilling Gothic tales, and is also credited with inventing the detective fiction genre in The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

This radio collection features five of his classic tales - The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Oblong Box, The Fall of the House of Usher and The Masque of the Red Death, read by David Horovitch, Brian Gear, James Aubrey, Sean Barrett and Don Gilet. Also included is his renowned poem The Raven, read by Patrick Romer.

Here, too, are adaptations of Poe's suspenseful story of piracy and slavery, The Gold Bug, starring Clarke Peters and Rhashan Stone, and his pioneering mystery story The Murders in the Rue Morgue, starring James Fleet and Andrew Scott.

Radio 3's The Essay: Loving the Raven sees Poe enthusiasts Andrew Taylor, Joanne Harris, Louise Welsh, Mark Lawson and Kim Newman discussing the author's enduring legacy and cult status, while in Adventures in Poetry: The Raven, Peggy Reynolds explores Poe's most iconic work.

Also included are two original dramas featuring Poe himself. Obsessed by a woman's unsolved murder, Edgar Allan Poe is presented with a disturbing revelation on the night before his death in Peter Mackie's The Real Mystery of Marie Roget, starring Ed Bishop. And in Christopher Cook's The Strange Case of Edgar Allan Poe, starring Kerry Shale and John Moffatt, Poe's famous detective C. Auguste Dupin investigates the bizarre death of his creator.

Content warning: The Gold Bug is set in a time when slavery was still prevalent in America, and contains racist language from that era.

Track listing:
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Oblong Box
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of the Red Death
The Raven
The Gold Bug
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Essay: Loving the Raven
Adventures in Poetry: The Raven
The Real Mystery of Marie Roget
The Strange Case of Edgar Allan Poe

©2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

About Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, and literary critic who is credited with inventing the detective fiction genre and with contributing to the emerging science fiction genre. He began his literary career with the anonymous publication of a collection of his poems entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems. He then turned to writing prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming well known for his particular style of literary criticism. He served for a time on the staff of the New York Mirror, in which his poem "The Raven" was published. Poe's other well-known works include his stories "The Purloined Letter," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Mystery of Marie Roget."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jerry on July 18, 2025

This was a recording that I listened to loaned from BorrowBox. I find it difficult to review, there are some stories from Edgar Allan Poe that were five star rating at the beginning of the recording. Many horror writers list him as an influence and I fully understand why. They are timeless masterpie......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on October 06, 2023

The essays and some of the other content wasn't my favorite, but I enjoyed the readings of Poe's story. It served as a good refresher for Netflix's release of Flanagan's “The Fall of the House of Usher”......more

Goodreads review by Lily on May 07, 2023

I listened up until the Gold Bug and whilst I enjoyed the narratives whilst they were playing, I never had any motivation to put the audiobook back on which I think says a lot.......more

Goodreads review by Simone on October 25, 2024

Meh. I love Edgar Allan Poe and enjoyed hearing his work but I think the ones written by others and also some of the dramatizations were just not good......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on November 30, 2022

Very disappointed with this. The actual stories, and the performances, were terrific, but I was disappointed by the “filler” - numerous essays about Poe. I’d have preferred more of Poe’s writing.......more

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