Selected Tales

There's a reason there has been no entry this pas few months: I've been bored by the book I've started, Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, and could find no envy to read it further... and yet I was determined not to read another book while this one was not finished.
Well, for time's sake, I've compromised: I've read some of the tales, the most famous ones, so that I would get the best. To cut a long story short, even the best of them bored me and getting to a point where I could tell myself "you've done the best you could with this one" has been painstakingly long.

I've started this "Selected Tales" from Edgar Allan Poe with "The Duc de l'Omelette", "MS found in a bottle", and "The Assignation": the first one made no sense to me, the second one was not thrilling at all (although you could see the author tried) and the third one I don't even remember what it's about...
Then I moved to the so-called best novels "Ligeia", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The murders of the rue Morgue", "The Masque of the red Death" and "The Black Cat"... The author tries to bring some exaltation, then tries to make the reader anxious and fails miserably at both tasks: the style is way too complicated; the sentences are too long and too complex to facilitate the understanding. Edgar Poe obviously has a thing for burrowing people alive, but the way he brings it in the story makes it appear more foolish that fearful.

I understand some people thing these are the creepiest stories ever, but I must not be receptive to his style.
Pheeeeew! I'm happy to be done with that one; the next one on my list is a 600 pages story about a whale :) I could use some change!