Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

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17 stories: Metzengerstein -- [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) Ligeia -- [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) The man of the crowd -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The oval portrait -- [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) The imp of the perverse -- [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) Hop-frog -- The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket -- 32 poems: Tamerlane -- Song ("I saw thee on thy bridal day") -- A dream within a dream -- The happiest day, the happiest hour -- Sonnet: To science -- Al Aaraaf -- Romance -- Fairy-land -- To Helen -- Lenore -- Israfel -- The city in the sea -- The sleeper -- The valley of unrest -- The coliseum -- To one in paradise -- The haunted palace -- Sonnet: Silence -- The conqueror worm -- Dream-land -- [Raven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41081W) Ulalume -- For Annie -- Eldorado -- [Annabel Lee](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273456W) The bells -- O, Tempora! O, Mores! -- Alone -- Imitation (The first or 1827 version of "A dream within a dream") -- To --- --- (The second or 1829 version of "A dream within a dream") -- A pæan (The first or 1831 version of "Lenore") -- Lenore (Intermediate or 1843 version) -- Essays/Criticism Letter to B--- -- Norman Leslie (excerpts) -- Drake-Halleck (excerpts) -- Night and morning (excerpts) -- Exordium -- Ballads and other poems (excerpts) -- Twice told tales -- The characters of Shakespeare -- Preface to The raven and other poems -- The philosophy of composition -- The poetic principle.

subjects: Laments,  Narrative poetry,  Poetry,  Grief,  American poetry,  American Children's poetry,  Love poetry,  Juvenile poetry,  busts,  supernatural,  talking birds,  ravens,  American fantasy poetry,  Young adult nonfiction,  Fantasy poetry,  Gothic poetry,  Poetry (poetic works by one author),  Children's poetry,  Death,  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,  American fiction,  American Short stories,  fear,  pendulums,  Spanish Inquisition,  abbeys,  daggers,  Hematidrosis,  Juvenile audience,  masquerade balls,  nobility,  plagues,  shrouds,  burial vaults,  catalepsy,  dragons,  hermitages,  heroic romances,  hysteria,  knights,  maces,  psychogenic death,  tarns,  Revenge,  cats,  short story,  unreliable narrators,  self-hatred,  gallows,  Mystery and detective stories,  monograms

People: Annabel Lee,  Lenore,  Pallas,  William Wilson,  Father Time,  Prince Prospero,  Roderick Usher,  Madeline Usher,  Ethelred,  Montresor,  Fortunato,  Luchresi,  Lady Fortunato,  C. Auguste Dupin,  Minister D—,  Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

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

Times: Carnival,  December