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Edgar Allan Poe is oft considered to be one of the foremost writers of the Romantic literary movement. He is also given credit for fathering the Gothic fiction movement, and the modern detective story, as seen in his masterpiece "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Murder's in Rue Morgue". His body of work is still looked upon today as a model for uniqueness and individuality in literature. The stories in this anthology include:

"A Tale of Jerusalem" (1832)

"Bon-Bon" (1832)

"Loss of Breath" (1832)

"Metzengerstein" (1832)

"The Duc de L'Omelette" (1832)

"Four Beasts in One" (1833)

"MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833)

"The Assignation" (1834)

"Berenice" (1835)

"King Pest" (1835)

"Lionizing" (1835)

"Morella" (1835)

"Shadow" (1835)

"Mystification" (1837)

"A Predicament" (1838)

"How to Write a Blackwood Article" (1838)

"Ligeia" (1838)

"Silence" (1838)

"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" (1839)

"The Devil in the Belfry" (1839)

"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839)

"The Man That Was Used Up" (1839)

"Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling" (1839)

"William Wilson" (1839)

"The Business Man" (1840)

"The Journal of Julius Rodman" (1840)

"The Man of the Crowd" (1840)

"A Descent into the Maelstrom" (1841)

"Eleonora" (1841)

"Never Bet the Devil Your Head" (1841)

"The Colloquy of Monos and Una" (1841)

"The Island of the Fay" (1841)

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841)

"Three Sundays in a Week" (1841)

"The Gold-Bug" (1842)

"The Landscape Garden" (1842)

"The Masque of the Red Death" (1842)

"The Mystery of Marie Roget" (1842)

"The Oval Portrait" (1842)

"The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842)

"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (1843)

"Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences" (1843)

"The Black Cat" (1843)

"The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843)

"Mesmeric Revelation" (1844)

"Thou Art the Man" (1844)

"The Angel of the Odd" (1844)

"The Balloon-Hoax" (1844)

"The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq." (1844)

"The Oblong Box" (1844)

"The Premature Burial" (1844)

"The Purloined Letter" (1844)

"The Spectacles" (1844)

"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1844)

"Some Words with a Mummy" (1845)

"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845)

"The Imp of the Perverse" (1845)

"The Power of Words" (1845)

"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" (1845)

"The Cask of Amontillado" (1846)

"The Domain of Arnheim" (1846)

"The Sphinx" (1846)

"Hop-Frog" (1849)

"Landor's Cottage" (1849)

"Mellonta Tauta" (1849)

"The Light-House" (1849)

"Von Kempelen and His Discovery" (1849)

"X-ing a Paragrab" (1849)

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 694 pages

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