Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe [Blu-ray Audio]

The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe [Blu-ray Audio]

The Alan Parsons Project's debut album, originally released in June 1976, sets stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe to music. Engineer/producer Alan Parsons and songwriter Eric Woolfson brought in guest vocalists Arthur Brown ("The Tell-Tale Heart"), John Miles ("The Cask of Amontillado", "(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether") and Terry Sylvester of The Hollies ("To One in Paradise"), with members of Ambrosia and Pilot and keyboardist Francis Monkman also playing on the record.

This 50th anniversary edition is a region-free (ABC) Blu-ray audio disc featuring a new 2026 Dolby Atmos mix and the 2016 5.1 surround mix, both by Alan Parsons from the original multitrack tapes, plus a 96/24 stereo remaster of the 1976 album, a 48/24 stereo remaster of the 1987 remix album and the Work in Progress album, mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. It comes with a 16-page illustrated booklet containing full lyrics and Alan Parsons' notes on the surround mixes.