The Edgar Allan Poe Complete Works Collection - Stories, Poems, Novels, and Essays

I’ll admit, I approached this audiobook with skepticism—60 hours of Poe? Even for a fan, that’s a commitment. But the narration by Keeble and Noble transforms it from a marathon into a séance. Keeble, in particular, *embodies* the madness: his voice in *The Cask of Amontillado* drips with vinous glee, while his reading of *Ligeia* feels like a fever dream you can’t wake from. Noble, meanwhile, handles the essays and *Eureka* with academic precision, though I wished he’d leaned harder into the sarcasm of Poe’s literary takedowns. The real revelation here is the pacing. Short stories like *The Masque of the Red Death* clip along with claustrophobic tension, but the novel *Arthur Gordon Pym* drags in its middle—Poe’s prose can meander, and even skilled narrators can’t fully salvage his weaker descriptive passages. That said, the production quality is flawless: no distracting edits, just the creak of Poe’s language given room to breathe. My only gripe? The lack of chapter markers for individual poems makes revisiting favorites a hunt. Still, for the price of a single credit, you’re getting an entire crypt of classics. If you’ve ever shivered at a shadow or obsessed over a lost love, this collection will feel like Poe wrote it *for* you—then cursed you to listen forever.