Hop-Frog
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
ISBN: 9780241746714
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 15 Jul 2025
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback / softback
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
Edgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks in his narratives of violence, retribution and animalism. It is hard to recommend Hop-Frog wholeheartedly (its original subtitle was: Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs) as it is such an affront to decency, but you will certainly never forget it.
ISBN: 9780241746714
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 15 Jul 2025
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback / softback
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
Edgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks in his narratives of violence, retribution and animalism. It is hard to recommend Hop-Frog wholeheartedly (its original subtitle was: Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs) as it is such an affront to decency, but you will certainly never forget it.
