Read Cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe in Spanishwith every sentence explained

Cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe was first published in 1919. In Passage you read the full text in the Spanish translation by Carmen Torres Calderón de Pinillos, marked intermediate and filed under horror and mystery and crime. It runs to about 56,800 words.

A walled-up enemy. A cat that will not die. A plague that no castle can keep out.

This classic Spanish edition gathers eight of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous tales, the stories that shaped horror and detective fiction. In "The Cask of Amontillado", a man lures his rival into the catacombs during carnival with the promise of a rare wine. In "The Black Cat", a narrator's cruelty returns to haunt him in the most terrifying way.

Here too are the gloomy "Fall of the House of Usher", the treasure-hunting puzzle of "The Gold-Bug", the dazzling and deadly masquerade of "The Masque of the Red Death", and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", where the brilliant Dupin invents the modern detective story. Add the haunting "Ligeia" and a whirlpool adventure, "A Descent into the Maelström", and you have Poe at his very best.

Translated by Carmen Torres Calderón de Pinillos in 1919, it is a perfect way to meet a familiar author in Spanish.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Spanish. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday Spanish feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.