

An edition of Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1970)
By Edgar Allan Poe,Gary Richard Thompson,G. R. Thompson
Publish Date
1987
Publisher
Harper & Row Publishers
Language
eng
Pages
564
Description:
31 POEMS Alone [Annabel Lee](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273456W) Bells Coliseum Conqueror Worm Dream Dream-Land Dreams Dream Within a Dream Eldorado Evening Star Fairy-Land For Annie Happiest Day--The Happiest Hour Haunted Place Introduction Israfel Lake--to-- Lenore [Raven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41081W) Sleeper Sonnet--Silence Sonnet--To Science Spirits of the Dead Stanzas: "in Youth Have I Known" The City in the Sea To--: "the Bowers Wherat, in Dreams I See" To Helen To One in Paradise Ulalume--A Ballad Valley of Unrest 31 STORIES [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) Colloquy of Monos and Una [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/OL41078W) Hop-Frog How to Write a Blackwood Article [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) Ligeia Lionizing Loss of Breath Man of the Crowd [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Metzengerstein Ms: Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Never Bet the Devil Your Head Oval Portrait [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) Shadow--A Parable [Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W) Some Words with a Mummy Sphinx Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) CRITICISM Review of "Twice-told tales by Nathanial Hawthorne" -- The philosophy of compositions -- Excerpts from The poetic principle.
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, abbeys, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, animal magnetism, aristocracy, berths, burial vaults, catalepsy, cats, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, coroners, Crime, Crime fiction, Crime in fiction, crypts, daggers, Detective and mystery stories, dragons, embedded narrative, fear, fiction, first-person narrative, fixation, gallows, gothic fiction, Gothic fiction (literary genre), hanging, Hematidrosis, hermitages, heroic romances, hoaxes, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, horror story, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Hypnagogia, hypnotism, hysteria, Juvenile audience, Juvenile fiction, knights, maces, masquerade balls, Mesmerism, metaphors, monograms, monomania, mountaineering, Murder, Murder in fiction, Mystery and detective stories, narration, nobility, obsessive-compulsive disorder, pendulums, phobias, plagues, premature burial, pseudoscience, psychogenic death, Ratiocination, Revenge, self-destructive behavior, self-hatred, short stories, short stories (single author), short story, shrouds, silence, Spanish Inquisition, suspense, Taphophobia, tarns, tuberculosis, unconsciousness, unreliable narrators, vortex, whirlpoolsClassic Literature, Laments, Grief, Love poetry, Juvenile poetry, Collected works (single author, multi-form), Fiction, short stories (single author)
People: Lenore, Pallas, Annabel Lee, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Prince Prospero, Father Time, C. Auguste Dupin (Fictitious character), C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Demon, William Wilson
Places: kingdom by the sea, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo, Paris, Libya, Hebrides, Rome, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford