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Fiction ::Collected stories ::Short Stories ::Poetry ::Essays

Fiction- Longer Works

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838)

The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835)

Collected stories

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)

The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe (1839-1841)

Short Stories

The Angel of The Odd

The Assignation

The Balloon-Hax

Berenice

Bon-Bon

The Black Cat

Business Man

The Cask of Amontillado

Colloquy of Monos and Una

Conversation of Eiros and Charmion

A Descent Into The Maelström

Devil in The Belfry

Diddling

The Domain of Arnheim

Duc De L'Omelette

Eleonora

The Facts in The Case of M. Valdemar

The Fall of The House of The Usher

Four Beasts in One

The Gold-Bug

Hop Frog

How to Write A Blackwood Article

The Imp of the Perverse

The Island of the Fay

King Pest

Landor's Cottage

Landscape Garden

Ligeia

Loss of Breath

Maelzel's Chess-Player

Man of The Crowd

Man That Was Used Up

The Masque of The Red Death

Mellonta Tauta

Mesmeric Revelation

Metzengerstein

Morella

Ms. Found in a Bottle

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Mystery of Marie Roget

Mystification

Never Bet the Devil Your Head

Oblong Box

The Oval Portrait

Pit And The Pendulum

The Power of Words

Predicament

The Premature Burial

The Purloined Letter

Shadow -- A Parable

Silence -- A Fable

Some Words with a Mummy

Spectacles

Sphinx

System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

A Tale of Jerusalem

Tale of The Ragged Mountains

The Tell Tale Heart

Thou Art The Man

The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade

Three Sundays in a Week

Von Kempelen And His Discovery

Why The Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling

William Wilson

X-ing a Paragrab

Poetry

Al Aaraaf

Alone

Annabel Lee

The Bells

Bridal Ballad

City In The Sea

Coliseum

Conqueror Worm

A Dream

Dream Within a Dream

Dreamland

Dreams

Eldorado

An Enigma

Eulalie

Evening Star

Fairyland

For Annie

The Forest Reverie

The Happiest Day

Haunted Palace

Hymn

Imitation

In Youth I Have Known One

Israfel

The Lake

Lenore

The Raven

Romance

Silence

Sleeper

Song

Sonnet -- To Science

Spirits of The Dead

Tamerlane

To F--

To Frances S. Osgood

To Helen

To Isadore

To Marie Louise

To My Mother

To One In Paradise

To The River

To Zante

Ulalume

A Valentine

The Valley of Unrest

The Village Street

Essays

Death of Edgar A. Poe by N. P. Willis

Edgar Allan Poe: An Appreciation

Life of Edgar Allan Poe by James Russell Lowell

Old English Poetry

Philosophy of Furniture

The Philosophy of Composition

The Poetic Principle

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Al Aaraaf

Alone

Angel of the Odd

Annabel Lee

Balloon-Hoax

Bells

Berenice

Black Cat

Bon-Bon

Bridal Ballad

Business Man

Cask of Amontillado

City In The Sea

Coliseum

Colloquy of Monos and Una

Conqueror Worm

Conversation of Eiros and Charmion

Death of Edgar A. Poe

Descent Into The Maelström

Devil in the Belfry

Diddling

Domain of Arnheim

Dream

Dream Within A Dream

Dreamland

Dreams

Duc de L'Omelette

Edgar Allan Poe: An Appreciation

Eldorado

Eleonora

Enigma

Epigram on title page

Epimanes

Eulalie

Evening Star

Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar

Fairyland

Fall of the House of Usher

For Annie

Forest Reverie

Gold-Bug

Hans Phaal

Happiest Day

Haunted Palace

Hop Frog

Hymn

Imitation

Imp of The Perverse

In Youth I Have Known One

Island of The Fay

Israfel

King Pest - A Tale Containing an Allegory

Lake

Landor's Cottage

Landscape Garden

Lenore

Life of Edgar Allan Poe

Ligeia

Lionizing

Loss of Breath

Maelzel's Chess-Player

Man of The Crowd

Man That Was Used Up - A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign

Masque of The Red Death

Mellonta Tauta

Mesmeric Revelation

Metzengerstein

Morella

Ms. Found in a Bottle

Murders In The Rue Morgue

Mystery of Marie Roget

Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

Never Bet the Devil Your Head

Oblong Box

Old English Poetry

Oval Portrait

Philosophy of Composition

Philosophy of Furniture

Pit and the Pendulum

Poetic Principle

Power of Words

Preface

Premature Burial

Purloined Letter

Raven

Romance

Scythe of Time

Shadow - A Parable

Signora Zenobia

Silence

Siope

Sleeper

Some Words with a Mummy

Song

Sonnet -- To Science

Spectacles

Sphinx

Spirits of The Dead

System of Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether

Tale of Jerusalem

Tale of The Ragged Mountains

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Tamerlane

Tell-Tale Heart

Testimonials

Thou Art The Man

Thousand-and-Second Tale Of Scheherazade

Three Sundays in a Week

To F--

To Frances S. Osgood

To Helen

To Isadore

To Marie Louise

To My Mother

To One In Paradise

To The River

To Zante

Ulalume

Valentine

Valley of Unrest

Village Street

Visionary

Von Jung

Von Kempelen And His Discovery

Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling

William Wilson

X-ing a Paragrab

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The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Man That Was Used Up

Edgar Allen Poe Biography

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The Angel of the Odd

AN EXTRAVAGANZA.

IT was a chilly November afternoon. I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining-room, with my feet upon the fender, and at my elbow a small table which I had rolled up to the fire, and upon which were some apologies for dessert, with some miscellaneous bottles of wine, spirit and liqueur. In the morning I had been reading Glover's "Leonidas," Wilkie's "Epigoniad," Lamartine's "Pilgrimage," Barlow's "Columbiad," Tuckermann's "Sicily," and Griswold's "Curiosities"; I am willing to confess, therefore, that I now felt a little stupid. I made effort to arouse myself by aid of frequent Lafitte, and, all failing, I betook myself to a stray newspaper in despair. Having carefully perused the column of "houses to let," and the column of "dogs lost," and then the two columns of "wives and apprentices runaway," I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and, reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more satisfactory result. I was about throwing away, in disgust,

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