The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

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Angel of the Odd [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) Balloon-Hoax [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) Bon-Bon Business Man [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) Devil in the Belfry Diddling Considered As One of the Exact Sciences [Domain of Arnheim](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645889W) Duc de L'omelette [Eleonora](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14937980W) [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Four Beasts in One : the Homo-Cameleopard Gold-Bug Hans Pfaal Hop-Frog How to Write a Blackwood Article [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) [Island of the Fay](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645993W) King Pest [Landor's Cottage](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646005W) Ligeia Light-House Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. Loss of Breath Man of the Crowd Man That Was Used Up [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Mellonta Tauta [Mesmeric Revelation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646037W) Metzengerstein Morella Morning on the Wissahiccon Ms. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Mystery of Marie Rogêt Mystification Never Bet the Devil Your Head Oblong Box Oval Portrait Philosophy of Furniture [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) Power of Words Predicament [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) Shadow [Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W) Some Passages in the Life of a Lion Some Words with a Mummy Spectacles Sphinx System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether Tale of Jerusalem Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) Thou Art the Man [Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646039W) Three Sundays in a Week [Von Kempelen and His Discovery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25111544W) Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)X-Ing a Paragrab

subjects: American Detective and mystery stories,  American Horror tales,  Short stories,  aristocracy,  satire,  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,  mesmerism,  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,  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,  Mystery and detective stories,  monograms,  Horror & Supernatural Fiction,  fantasy fiction,  19th century American fiction,  Literary collections

People: William Wilson,  Von Kempelen,  Lieutenant Maury,  Sinbad the Sailor,  Scheherazade,  Demon,  Father Time,  Mr. Vankirk,  Prince Prospero,  Mr. Landor,  Marmontel,  Roderick Usher,  Madeline Usher,  Ethelred,  Ernest Valdemar,  Eleonora,  Ermengarde,  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,  Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Places: England,  Eton College,  Oxford,  University of Oxford,  Rome,  Europe,  Paris,  Lofoten,  Norway,  Valley of the Many-Colored Grass,  Heaven,  New York,  Toledo,  Libya,  Hebrides

Times: Carnival