DURING THE WHOLE of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
An edition of Best of Poe [13 stories, 20 poems]
(2006)
The Best of Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, and 30 Others
by Edgar Allan Poe
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13 stories:
Fall of the House of Usher
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841)
Masque of the Red Death
Pit and the Pendulum
Tell-tale Heart
The Gold-Bug (1843)
Black Cat
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)
Premature Burial
Purloined Letter
Cask of Amontillado
Hop-Frog or The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs (1849)
20 poems:
Alone (1829)
Annabel Lee
Bells (1848)
Coliseum (1833)
Conqueror Worm (1843)
Dream (1827)
Dreams (1827)
Dream Within A Dream
Eldorado
Enigma
For Annie (1849) 199
Haunted Palace (1839)
Lenore (1831)
Raven
Sonnet—To Science (1845)
To Helen
To My Mother (1849)
To One In Paradise (1834)
To — (1829)
To — (1849)
Publish Date
March 2006
Publisher
Prestwick House, Inc.
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American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, short stories, premature burial, catalepsy, Taphophobia, crypts, phobias, unconsciousness, berths, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monogramsShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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March 2006, Prestwick House, Inc.
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"DURING THE WHOLE of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher."
Table of Contents
SHORT STORIES
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) ............„................
Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841)
The Masque of the Red Death (1842) . .. .. . .
The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) ..................,.
The Gold-Bug (1843) .. ....
The Black Cat
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844).
The Premature Burial
The Purloined Letter (1844)
The Cask of Amontillado
Hop-Frog or The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs (1849) .....
POEMS
A Dream (1827)
Alone (1829)
To Helen
Lenore (1831) .........................................
182
.. ..... 183
. . ...........203
..............204
.... ..216
Dreams (1827) ..............................................................
To — (1829) .........................................
The Coliseum (1833)..................................
... 179
... .. .... ...........180
To One In Paradise (1834)..........................................
The Haunted Palace (1839)
The Conqueror Worm (1843)..................................................187
The Raven (1845) 189
Annabel Lee (1849) .................................................................193
The Bells (1848) .... .... ..... 196
For Annie (1849) 199
Sonnet—To Science (1845)
Eldorado
To My Mother (1849)
To — (1849)
..177
.178
.. 181
.185
..186
..192
.. 195
..202
..205
A Dream Within A Dream
An Enigma ..
Glossary 206
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