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| x The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket |
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym who stows away aboard a whaling ship called Grampus. Various...
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| x The Journal of Julius Rodman |
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The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First Passage across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized Man is an unfinished serial novel by American author Edgar Allan Poe.
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| x Tamerlane and Other Poems |
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Tamerlane and Other Poems is the first published work by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The short collection of poems was first published in 1827. Today, it is believed only 12 copies of the collection still exist.
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| x Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque |
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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.
It was published by the Philadelphia firm Lea & Blanchard and released in two volumes. The publisher was willing...
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| x The Premature Burial |
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Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story |
"The Premature Burial" is a horror short story on the theme of being buried alive, written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. Fear of being buried alive was common in this period and Poe was taking...
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| x The Tell-Tale Heart |
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"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides...
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| x The Fall of the House of Usher |
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published September 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. It was slightly revised in 1840 for the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. It contains within it the...
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| x The Pit and the Pendulum |
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"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story is...
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| x The Black Cat |
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Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story |
"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". In both, a...
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| x The Oval Portrait | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story |
"The Oval Portrait" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its initial publication in 1842.
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| x William Wilson |
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"William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years outside of London. The tale follows the theme of the doppelgänger and is written in a style based on rationality. It also...
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| x The Devil in the Belfry | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story |
"The Devil in the Belfry" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in 1839.
It is a satirical short story, making fun of the United States President Martin Van Buren and his election methods, by ridiculing the inhabitants of...
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| x Ligeia |
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Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story |
"Ligeia" is an early short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1838. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligent raven-haired woman. She falls ill, composes "The Conqueror Worm", and quotes...
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| x The Gold-Bug |
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"The Gold-Bug" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the plot follows William Legrand, who was recently bitten by a gold-colored bug, as well as his servant Jupiter and an unnamed narrator. Legrand pulls the...
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| x The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | |||
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| x Four Beasts in One | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | |||
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| x The Murders in the Rue Morgue |
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"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". Similar works predate Poe's...
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| x The Mystery of Marie Roget |
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Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1842 |
"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842. This is the first murder mystery based on the details of a real crime. It first appeared in Snowden's...
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| x The Balloon-Hoax |
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"The Balloon-Hoax" is the title now used for a newspaper article written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844. Originally presented as a true story, it detailed European Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days in a gas...
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| x The Purloined Letter |
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"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt"...
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| x The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | |||
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| x A Descent into the Maelstrom |
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"A Descent into the Maelström" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. In the tale, a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool. It has been grouped with Poe's tales of ratiocination and also labeled an early form of science fiction....
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| x Von Kempelen and his Discovery | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | |||
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| x Mesmeric Revelation | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | |||
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| x The Island of the Fay | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | |||
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| x The Assignation | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | |||
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| x The Domain of Arnheim | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | |||
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| x Landor's Cottage | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | |||
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| x Berenice |
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Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1835 |
"Berenice" is a short horror story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1835. The story follows a man named Egaeus who is preparing to marry his cousin Berenice. He has a tendency to fall into periods of intense...
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| x The Spectacles |
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"The Spectacles" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844. It is one of Poe's comedy tales.
The narrator, 22-year old Napoleon Buonaparte, changes his last name from "Froissart" to "Simpson" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from...
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| x King Pest | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story |
"King Pest", also called "King Pest the First -- A Tale Containing an Allegory" is a short story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in Sept. 1835.
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| x Three Sundays in a Week | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1841 | ||
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| x MS. Found in a Bottle |
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"MS. Found in a Bottle" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever...
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| x The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar |
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"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also, to a certain...
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| x The Cask of Amontillado |
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"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado") is a short story, written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book.
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| x The Angel of the Odd | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story |
"The Angel of the Odd" is an 1844 short story written by 19th century author Edgar Allan Poe. It is written as a satire.
The story follows an unnamed narrator who reads a story about a man who died after accidentally sucking a needle down his throat...
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| x Metzengerstein |
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"Metzengerstein", also called "Metzengerstein: A Tale In Imitation of the German", was the first short story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe to see print. It was first published in the pages of Philadelphia's Saturday Courier magazine,...
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| x The Light-House | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story |
"The Light-House" is the unofficial title of the last work written by Edgar Allan Poe. He did not live to finish it, and had barely begun it by the time of his death in 1849.
The story is told as a series of diary entries, the first being New Year's...
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| x The Masque of the Red Death |
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"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death"(1842) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey. He,...
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| x The Oblong Box | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story |
"The Oblong Box" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844, about a sea voyage and a mysterious box.
The story opens with the unnamed narrator recounting a summer sea voyage from Charleston, South Carolina to New York City aboard...
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| x The Man of the Crowd | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story |
"The Man of the Crowd" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe about a nameless narrator following a man through a crowded London, first published in 1840.
The story is introduced with the epigraph, "Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul"—a...
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| x The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1839 |
"The Conversation of Eiros And Charmion" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, an apocalyptic science fiction story first published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in 1839.
Two people, who have been renamed Eiros and Charmion after death, discuss...
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| x Eleonora |
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Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1842 |
"Eleonora" is a short story written by American author Edgar Allan Poe, originally published in 1842.
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| x The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story |
"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in the June 1835 issue of the monthly magazine Southern Literary Messenger, and intended by Poe to be a hoax.
Poe planned to continue the hoax in...
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| x Loss of Breath | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1832 | ||
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| x X-ing a Paragrab | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1849 | ||
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| x The Duc De L'Omelette | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1832 | ||
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| x A Tale of Jerusalem | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1832 |
"A Tale of Jerusalem" is a 1832 short story by American author, poet, and critic Edgar Allan Poe.
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| x Lionizing | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1835 | ||
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| x Shadow - A Parable | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1835 | ||
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| x Mystification | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1837 | ||
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| x Silence - A Fable | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1837 | ||
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| x How to Write a Blackwood Article | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1838 | ||
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| x A Predicament |
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Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1838 |
"A Predicament" is a humorous short story by Edgar Allan Poe, usually combined with its companion piece "How to Write a Blackwood Article." It was originally titled "The Scythe of Time."
The bizarre story follows a female narrator, Signora Psyche...
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| x Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1840 | ||
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| x The Colloquy of Monos and Una | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1841 | ||
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| x The Landscape Garden | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1842 | ||
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| x Diddling | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1843 | ||
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| x Thou Art the Man | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1844 | ||
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| x The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. | Edgar Allan Poe | Short Story | 1844 | ||
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