All of the tales by the master of the detective and the macabre story. 53 of his best-known poems plus essays and criticisms.

Edgar Allan Poe was a poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic. He was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. Born Edgar Poe in Boston in 1809, he was raised in Virginia by foster parents named Allan who gave him his middle name. Poe died of unknown causes in Baltimore in 1849.

The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall	p. 3
The Gold-Bug	p. 42
The Balloon-Hoax	p. 71
Von Kempelen and His Discovery	p. 82
Mesmeric Revelation	p. 88
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar	p. 96
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade	p. 104
MS. Found in a Bottle	p. 118
A Descent into the Maelstrom	p. 127
The Murders in the Rue Morgue	p. 141
The Mystery of Marie Roget	p. 169
The Purloined Letter	p. 208
The Black Cat	p. 223
The Fall of the House of Usher	p. 231
The Pit and the Pendulum	p. 246
The Premature Burial	p. 258
The Masque of the Red Death	p. 269
The Cask of Amontillado	p. 274
The Imp of the Perverse	p. 280
The Island of the Fay	p. 285
The Oval Portrait	p. 290
The Assignation	p. 293
The Tell-Tale Heart	p. 303
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether	p. 307
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq	p. 322
How to Write a Blackwood Article	p. 338
A Predicament	p. 346
Mystification	p. 354
X-ing a Paragrab	p. 361
Diddling	p. 367
The Angel of the Odd	p. 376
Mellonta Tauta	p. 384
Loss of Breath	p. 395
The Man that Was Used Up	p. 405
The Business Man	p. 413
Maelzel's Chess-Player	p. 421
The Power of Words	p. 440
The Colloquy of Monos and Una	p. 444
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion	p. 452
Shadow--A Parable	p. 457
Silence--A Fable	p. 459
Philosophy of Furniture	p. 462
A Tale of Jerusalem	p. 467
The Sphinx	p. 471
The Man of the Crowd	p. 475
Never Bet the Devil Your Head	p. 482
"Thou Art the Man"	p. 490
Hop-Frog	p. 502
Four Beasts in One; The Homo-Camelopard	p. 510
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling	p. 517
Bon-Bon	p. 522
Some Words with a Mummy	p. 535
Review of Stephens' "Arabia Petraea"	p. 549
Magazine-Writing--Peter Snook	p. 564
The Quacks of Helicon--A Satire	p. 574
Astoria	p. 582
The Domain of Arnheim, or The Landscape Garden	p. 604
Landor's Cottage	p. 616
William Wilson	p. 626
Berenice	p. 642
Eleonora	p. 649
Ligeia	p. 654
Morella	p. 667
Metzengerstein	p. 672
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains	p. 679
The Spectacles	p. 688
The Duc De L Omelette	p. 708
The Oblong Box	p. 711
King Pest	p. 720
Three Sundays in a Week	p. 730
The Devil in the Belfry	p. 736
Lionizing	p. 743
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym	p. 748
Preface to the Poems	p. 887
The Poetic Principle	p. 889
The Rationale of Verse	p. 908
Poems
The Raven	p. 943
Lenore	p. 946
Hymn	p. 947
A Valentine	p. 947
The Coliseum	p. 948
To Helen	p. 949
To -- --	p. 951
Ulalume	p. 951
The Bells	p. 954
An Enigma	p. 957
Annabel Lee	p. 957
To My Mother	p. 959
The Haunted Palace	p. 959
The Conqueror Worm	p. 960
To F--S S. O--D	p. 962
To One in Paradise	p. 962
The Valley of Unrest	p. 963
The City in the Sea	p. 963
The Sleeper	p. 965
Silence	p. 966
A Dream Within a Dream	p. 967
Dream-Land	p. 967
To Zante	p. 969
Eulaie	p. 969
Eldorado	p. 970
Israfel	p. 971
For Annie	p. 972
To --	p. 975
Bridal Ballad	p. 975
To F--	p. 976
Scenes from "Politian"	p. 977
Poems Written in youth
Sonnet--To Science	p. 992
Al Aaraaf	p. 992
To the River --	p. 1005
Tamerlane	p. 1005
To --	p. 1012
A Dream	p. 1012
Romance	p. 1013
Fairy-Land	p. 1013
The Lake--To --	p. 1014
Song	p. 1015
To M. L. S--	p. 1016
Spirits of the Dead	p. 1016
To Helen	p. 1017
Evening Star	p. 1018
"The Happiest Day"	p. 1018
Imitation	p. 1019
Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius. Translation from the Greek	p. 1020
Dreams	p. 1020
"In Youth I Have Known One"	p. 1021
A Paean	p. 1023
To Isadore	p. 1024
Alone	p. 1026
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