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First published in a 1842 edition of Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, The Masque of the Red Death tells the story of Prince Prospero as he tries to avoid a plague by confining himself and his nobles to a masquerade in an abbey. Often considered a gothic allegory, the story reflects on not only life and death but also the illusion of control.
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The story's speaker unwinds, in a logical manner, a series of happenings he calls "household events." More deeply, however, the reader embarks on a ghastly journey through the subconscious of a murderer. Through the telling of the events, and through the guilt and pressure of the subconscious, the details of the murder are revealed.
4) The Raven
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Perhaps Poe's most famous work, The Raven was first published in 1845 in the New York Evening Mirror. Known for its tight rhymes, rhythm, and the repetitive response given by the eponymous raven-Nevermore-the poem focuses on that raven and a forlorn man who is distraught over his lost lover, Lenore.
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The story follows a man of noble descent who calls himself William Wilson because, although denouncing his past, he does not accept responsibilities blame for his actions, saying that "man was never thus [...] tempted before". After several paragraphs, the narration then segues into a description of Wilson's boyhood, which was spent in a school "in a misty-looking village of England." William meets another boy in his school who shared the same name,...
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 4 Edgar Allan Poe - This vintage book contains the fourth volume of "The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe". Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author, editor, poet, and critic. Most famous for his stories of mystery and horror, he was one of the first American short story writers, and is widely considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre. The tales contained within this volume include:...
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A deluxe anthology of works by Edgar Allan Poe that inspired Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher, curated by series creator Mike Flanagan
There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House...
There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House...
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First published in a 1841 edition of Graham's Magazine, The Murders in the Rue Morgue is often cited as the first modern detective story. The first of three stories to center around C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's fictional detective, The Murders in the Rue Morgue involves Dupin's investigation of two women's murders. Establishing many of the tropes that would later become common to detective fiction, the story begins with an explanation of Dupin's theory...
9) Ligeia
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The unnamed narrator describes the qualities of Ligeia, a beautiful, passionate and intellectual woman, raven-haired and dark-eyed, that he thinks he remembers meeting "in some large, old decaying city near the Rhine." He is unable to recall anything about the history of Ligeia, including her family's name, but remembers her beautiful appearance. Her beauty, however, is not conventional. He describes her as emaciated, with some "strangeness." He describes...
10) Der Goldkäfer
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Der Ich-Erzähler besucht seinen Freund Legrand auf der Insel Sullivan's island. Sein Freund lebt in einer Hütte gemeinsam mit einem freigelassenen Sklaven namens Jupiter. Legrand berichtet dem Erzähler von einem ungewöhnlichen Fund: ein metallisch schimmernder Käfer. Da Legrand den Käfer an einen Entomologen (Insektenkundler) zur Bestimmung verliehen hat, fertigt er eine Skizze auf einem alten Stück Pergament von dem Käfer an. Es erscheint...
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The first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term "catalepsy", a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance. This leads to his fear of being buried alive. He emphasises his fear by mentioning several people who have been buried alive. In the first case, the tragic accident was only discovered much later, when the victim's crypt was reopened. In others,...
12) The Oblong Box
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The story opens with the narrator recounting a summer sea voyage from aboard the ship 'Independence'. The narrator learns that his old college friend Cornelius Wyatt is aboard with his wife and two sisters, though he has reserved three state-rooms. After conjecturing the extra room was for a servant or extra baggage, he learns his friend has brought on board an oblong pine box: "It was about six feet in length by two and a half in breadth." The narrator...
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Inspired by an account in The Broadway Journal of a surgeon putting a patient into an magnetic sleep, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar is a suspenseful tale concerning the forestallment of death by hypnosis. Originally published without a clear indication of its fictionality, the story was assumed to be a true account by some of its original readers.
14) Landors Landhaus
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Leonie und Poe mieten ein kleines Landhaus und möchten nach ihrer Rückkehr nach Amerika schnellstmöglich heiraten. Doch schon bald offenbart das Landhaus ein düsteres Geheimnis und der seltsame Vermieter Mr.Landor gesteht, dass auf dem Haus ein alter Fluch lastet. Doch auch Leonie Goron hat einiges vor ihrem Geliebten Poe verheimlicht wie zum Beispiel ihren wahren Namen...
15) Schatten
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Eine kurze Geschichte von Edgar Allan Poe aus dem Reich der Toten.
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The scenario of this work is atypical for Poe. The narrator begins his tale by commenting that "the higher order of music is the most thoroughly estimated when we are exclusively alone." Only then, he states, can its "spiritual uses" be fully appreciated. "But there is one pleasure still within the reach of fallen mortality--and perhaps only one--which owes even more than does music to the accessory sentiment of seclusion. I mean the happiness experienced...
17) The Bargain Lost
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The story follows a man named Pierre Bon-Bon, who believes himself a profound philosopher, and his encounter with the devil. The humour of the story is based on the verbal interchange between the two, which satirizes classical philosophers including Plato and Aristotle. The devil reveals he has eaten the souls of many of these philosophers, this intrigues Bon-Bon…
18) The Assignation
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The main plot begins when the man is wandering the streets of Venice and comes across a woman who screams because she sees her baby in the water. She is not actually trying to get the baby out of the water though instead a man from across the water jumps in, after the narrator has arrived and saves the baby. From here it becomes clear that the woman may have dropped the baby into the water by herself…
19) Die Feeninsel
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"Die Feeninsel" knüpft nahtlos an die Erzählung "Landor's Landhaus" an. Poe wurde wegen Mordes und Hexerei verhaftet und in eine Irrenanstalt gebracht. Leonie sucht ihn und will seine Unschuld beweisen. Sie spricht mit dem Richter des New Yorker Sondergerichts Sir Christopher Frank. Da der Kopf des Opfers abgetrennt und angeblich weggehext wurde, ist Poe nun der Hexerei angeklagt…
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This 1900 collection features Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, a remarkable work of disturbing gothic fiction which influenced science fiction's development as well as the work of Jules Verne and Herman Melville. The tale follows a young boy, Pym, and his friend, Augustus, as they witness such harrowing events as mutiny and cannibalism. Among the fifteen short stories in this edition are "The Devil in the Belfry" and...
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