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The Poe Reader

by Edgar Allan Poe · 1984

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27 stories:

Fall of the House of Usher

Pit and the Pendulum

Premature Burial

Masque of the Red Death

Cask of Amontillado

Tell-tale Heart

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Hop-Frog —

King pest.

Gold-bug —

Murder in the Rue Morgue —

Mystery of Marie Roget —

Purloined Letter

Satires and occassional writings:

System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether —

Diddling —

Imp of the Perverse

Man that was used up —

Philosophy of furniture —

Thou art the man.

Tales of the imagination :

William Wilson

Berenice

Ligeia —

Domain of Arnheim

Landscape garden —

Descent into the Maelstrom

MS. found in a bottle.

9 poems:

Annabel Lee

Bells

City in the sea

Conqueror worm

Israfel

Lenore

Raven

To Helen

Ulalume

Genre
horrorhorrorMore like thisLess of thisBritish mysteryBritish mysteryMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thisthrillerthrillerMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisEton CollegeEton CollegeMore like thisLess of thiskingdom by the seakingdom by the seaMore like thisLess of thisLofotenLofotenMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 598 pages
Form
poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of thisshort storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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