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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

1966

  • busts
  • narrative poetry
  • supernatural
  • talking birds
  • american poetry
  • poetry
  • ravens
  • american fantasy poetry
  • young adult nonfiction
  • fantasy poetry

The story

67 STORIES: 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 [Domain of Arnheim](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645889W) Duc De L'Ome1ette [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/OL40987W) Four Beasts in One Gold-Bug 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 Lionizing 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 MS. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Mystery of Marie Roget Mystification Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket Never Bet the Devil Your Head Oblong Box Oval Portrait [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) Power of Words Predicament [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Purloined Letter](https://openlibraryorg/works/OL41065W) Shadow [Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W) Some Words with a Mummy Spectacles Sphinx System of Dr. Tart and Prof. Fether Tale of Jerusalem Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) Thou Art the Man [Thousa

What it’s like

Dark, candlelit prose with an ornate, Gothic voice: decaying mansions, shuttered rooms, lamplight guttering over velvet and dust, and a sense of the body and mind giving way under pressure. The collection moves between long, incantatory poems ("The Raven" with its mournful refrain and rhythmic insistence) and tight, cold tales that sharpen into a single fixed image: a beating heart under the floorboards, a bricked-up wall, a pendulum sweeping down. Its vibe is feverish melancholy, mixed with dry, sly comedy in the satirical sketches, hoaxes and mock-scientific pieces that puncture the mood now and then. Best read in short sittings late at night or on a wet afternoon, one story at a time, since the cadence is hypnotic and the dread accumulates. Intensity runs moderate to high: frequent deaths, premature burial, live entombment, a cat mutilated and hanged, and corpses described in unsettling physical detail, with dread far more than gore. For readers who love atmosphere, unreliable narrators and the slow tightening of horror, but not for anyone wanting something gentle.

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