The collected tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

Other Titles: Works. 1992. English

Author: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 1992.

ISBN: 0679600078 :
9780679600077

Description: xii, 1026 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject: Detective and mystery stories, American.
Fantasy poetry, American.
Horror tales, American.

Notes: "A Modern library giant"--Jacket.

Contents: The unparalled adventure of one Hans Pfaall -- The gold-bug -- The balloon-hoax -- Von Kempelen and his discovery -- Mesmeric revelation -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- The thousand-and second tale of Scheherazade -- MS. found in a bottle -- A descent into the maelstro·m -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The mystery of Marie Roget -- The purloined letter -- The black cat -- The fall of the house of Usher -- The pit and the pendulum -- The premature burial -- The masque of the Red Death -- The cast of Amontillado -- The imp of the perverse -- The island of the Fay -- The oval portrait -- The assignation -- The tell-tale heart -- The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether -- The literary life of Thingum Bob, Esq. -- How to write a Blackwood article -- A predicament -- Mystification -- X-ing a paragrab -- Diddling -- The angel of the odd -- Mellonta Tauta -- Loss of breath -- The man that was used up -- The business man.
(Cont'd) Maelzel's chess-player -- The power of words -- The colloquy of Monos and Una -- The conversation of Eiros and Charmion -- Shadow : a parable -- Silence : a fable -- Philosophy of furniture -- A tale of Jerusalem -- The sphinx -- The man of the crowd -- Never bet the devil your head -- "Thou art the man" -- Hop-frog -- Four beasts in one ; The homo-camelopard -- Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling -- Bon-bon -- Some words with a mummy -- Review of Stephens' "Arabia Petraea" -- Magazine writing.. Peter Snook -- The quacks of Helicon : a satire -- Astoria -- The domain of Arnheim, or The landscape garden -- Landor's cottage -- William Wilson -- Berenice -- Eleonora -- Ligeia -- Morella -- Metzengerstein -- A tale of the Ragged Mountains -- The spectacles -- The Duc de l'Omelette -- The oblong box -- King Pest -- Three Sundays in a week -- The devil in the belfry -- Lionizing -- Narrative of A. Gordon Pym -- Poems -- Poems written in youth.