The Poe Reader

Description:

27 stories: [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) Hop-Frog -- King pest. Gold-bug -- Murder in the Rue Morgue -- Mystery of Marie Roget -- [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) Satires and occassional writings: System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether -- Diddling -- [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) Man that was used up -- Philosophy of furniture -- Thou art the man. Tales of the imagination : [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) Ligeia -- [Domain of Arnheim](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645889W) Landscape garden -- [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) MS. found in a bottle. 9 poems: [Annabel Lee](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273456W) Bells City in the sea Conqueror worm Israfel Lenore [Raven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41081W) To Helen Ulalume

subjects: busts,  narrative poetry,  supernatural,  talking birds,  American poetry,  poetry,  ravens,  American fantasy poetry,  Young adult nonfiction,  Fantasy poetry,  Gothic poetry,  American children's poetry,  Poetry (poetic works by one author),  Children's poetry,  Death,  Laments,  Grief,  Love poetry,  Juvenile poetry,  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,  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,  self-destructive behavior,  metaphors,  coroners,  hanging,  burial vaults,  dragons,  hermitages,  heroic romances,  hysteria,  knights,  maces,  psychogenic death,  tarns,  embedded narrative,  mountaineering,  whirlpools,  vortex,  Ratiocination,  Revenge,  obsessive-compulsive disorder,  monomania,  fixation,  Mystery and detective stories,  monograms,  19th century American poetry,  19th century American fiction,  sort stories

People: Lenore,  Pallas,  Annabel Lee,  William Wilson,  Father Time,  Prince Prospero,  Roderick Usher,  Madeline Usher,  Ethelred,  Mr. Ellison,  Mrs. Ellison,  Seabright Ellison,  Jonas Danilssønn Ramus,  Montresor,  Fortunato,  Luchresi,  Lady Fortunato,  Egaeus,  Berenice,  C. Auguste Dupin,  Minister D—,  Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

Places: kingdom by the sea,  Paris,  Lofoten,  Norway,  Toledo,  England,  Eton College,  Oxford,  University of Oxford,  Rome

Times: Carnival,  December