Horror, tragedy, poetry and comedy. And because it's from Poe you learn something, too Seven exciting new theatrical adaptations of seven short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Some of the famous stories and some of the lesser known works. These one-act plays are most often for a cast of four actors: two women, two men. This new book is a sequel to Tait's first book of Poe adaptations (the first book contains ten other adaptations of ten other E. A. Poe stories).