Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.Here is a sampling, the second volume in a reprint of a famous edition of the works of Poe, a driven, passionate, difficult, often desperate man -- "three-fifths of him genius, " as Lowell said, and three fifths is more than most of the rest of us can claim or will ever have claimed for us.This volume includes "The Tell-Tale Heart, " "The Fall of the House of Usher, " "The Purloined Letter, " "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, " "William Wilson, " and many others.