Collected Tales, Poems, and Other Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was a short story writer, poet, editor and critic. Born in Boston, Massachesetts, he is one of the most acclaimed American short story writers of the 19th century and he is generally considered the creator of detective fiction.Carl Ostrowski is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. He is the author of Books, Maps, and Politics:A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861, winner of the 2007 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award, and Literature and Criminal Justice in Antebellum America.

• Acknowledgments Part I Introduction Part II Tales 25Ms. Found in a Bottle 36Berenice 43Morella 48Ligeia 51How to Write a Blackwood Article 61A Predicament 68The Man That Was Used Up 74The Fall of the House of Usher 80William Wilson 93The Man of the Crowd 106The Murders in the Rue Morgue 111A Descent into the Maelström 133Never Bet the Devil Your Head 144The Masque of the Red Death 150The Pit and the Pendulum 154The Tell-Tale Heart 163The Gold-Bug 167The Black Cat 190The Premature Burial 196The Purloined Letter 205The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 217The Balloon-Hoax 229The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 237Some Words with a Mummy 250The Imp of the Perverse 261The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 264The Cask of Amontillado 271Hop-Frog 275Part III Poems 299Sonnet—To Science 304Alone 304To Helen 304Israfel 305The Sleeper 306The City in the Sea 308The Haunted Palace 309The Conqueror Worm 310Dream-Land 311The Raven 312To ––– ––– ––– Ulalume: A Ballad 315The Bells 318Annabel Lee 320Part IV Eureka: A Prose Poem 327From Eureka: A Prose Poem 329Part V L etters, Prefaces, and Critical Writings 353From “Letter to B–––” 357From “Night and Morning” (Review of Bulwer) 358Guy Fawkes (Review of Ainsworth) 363From Ballads and Other Poems (Review of Longfellow) 367Twice-Told Tales (Review of Hawthorne) 372Twice-Told Tales (Review of Hawthorne continued) 373Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House 378From “Anastatic Printing” 380Preface to The Raven and Other Poems 382The Philosophy of Composition 383From “The Poetic Principle” 391From Poe to John Allan, December 22, 1828 392From Poe to Thomas W. White, April 30, 1835 393From Poe to Mrs. Maria Clemm, August 29, 1835 394From Poe to John P. Kennedy, February 11, 1836 395From Poe to Philip P. Cooke, September 21, 1839 396From Poe to Frederick W. Thomas, May 4, 1845 396From Poe to Philip P. Cooke, August 9, 1846 397From Poe to George W. Eveleth, December 15, 1846 397From Poe to George W. Eveleth, January 4, 1848