Hop-Frog90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Edgar Allan Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilisingly terse sketcher 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