Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Description:

Tales of Mystery and Imagination, London: George Harrap and New York: Brentanos, 1919. (This famous and frequently copied collection features elaborate illustrations by Harry Clarke. The original edition comprised 24 black and white illustrations, plus front cover and spine illustration and 10 decorative tailpieces. The book was so well received that it was reissued in 1923 with 8 additional illustrations in full color. It was reprinted in New York by Tudor in 1933, 1935, 1936 and 1939. These illustrations have been reprinted numerous times, most notably in London by Chancellor Press in 1985.) [(source)](https://www.eapoe.org/works/editions/index.htm#poe) Contains: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) Bon-Bon [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) Colloquy of Monos and Una Conversation of Eiros and Charmion [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) Gold Bug King Pest [Landor's Cottage](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646005W) Ligeia Lionizing Man of the Crowd [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Metzengerstein Morella Ms. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Mystery of Marie Roget Oblong Box [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W) Spectacles [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)

subjects: short stories,  aristocracy,  American Horror tales,  American literature,  Children's fiction,  Classic Literature,  Crime,  Crime fiction,  Detective and mystery stories,  Fiction,  first-person narrative,  Gothic fiction,  Homicide,  Horror,  Horror fiction,  Horror stories,  Horror tales,  Hyperesthesia,  Juvenile fiction,  Murder,  silence,  premature burial,  catalepsy,  Taphophobia,  crypts,  phobias,  unconsciousness,  berths,  American fiction,  American Short stories,  fear,  pendulums,  Spanish Inquisition,  abbeys,  daggers,  Hematidrosis,  Juvenile audience,  masquerade balls,  nobility,  plagues,  shrouds,  burial vaults,  dragons,  hermitages,  heroic romances,  hysteria,  knights,  maces,  psychogenic death,  tarns,  Mesmerism,  suspense,  hoaxes,  narration,  pseudoscience,  Hypnagogia,  animal magnetism,  hypnotism,  tuberculosis,  embedded narrative,  mountaineering,  whirlpools,  vortex,  Ratiocination,  Revenge,  cats,  short story,  unreliable narrators,  self-hatred,  gallows,  obsessive-compulsive disorder,  monomania,  fixation,  Detective and mystery fiction,  Illustrated works,  Thrillers (Fiction),  Illustrations,  death,  violence,  anxiety,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Children's stories, American,  Fiction, horror,  American Detective and mystery stories

People: William Wilson,  Demon,  Father Time,  Prince Prospero,  Mr. Landor,  Roderick Usher,  Madeline Usher,  Ethelred,  Ernest Valdemar,  Montresor,  Fortunato,  Luchresi,  Lady Fortunato,  Egaeus,  Berenice,  Jonas Danilssønn Ramus

Places: Lofoten,  Norway,  New York,  Toledo,  Libya,  Hebrides,  Rome,  England,  Eton College,  Oxford,  University of Oxford

Times: Carnival