num_pages: 513
description: And much of Madness and more of Sin And Horror the Soul of the PlotThe lines from 'Ligeia' epitomize the familiar Poe, the arch-priest of Gothic horror, author of 'The Masque of the Red Death' and 'The Pit and the Pendulum'. That Poe, unquestioned master of 'the Grotesque and Arabesque', is fully represented here, but the volume also includes generous selections from his poetry and critical writings. Together they amount to a portrait Rf a complex personality, that of a conscious aesthete, the most exotic of American writers, who was at the same time keenly engaged in an astonishihg variety of interests. Nor are the 'Grotesque' tales the simple manipulations of terror that they seem; David Galloway's introduction reveals their author as a profoundly serious writer, whose investigations of extreme states of consciousness have a particular relevance for our time.Originally published under the title Selected WritingsTable of ContentsIntroduction	Note on the Text	1. POEMS	Stanzas	Sonnet — To Science	A1 Aaraaf	Romance	To Helen	Israfel	The City in the Sea	The Sleeper	Lenore	The valley of Unrest	The Raven	Ulalume	For Annie	A Valentine	Annabel Lee	The Bells	Eldorado	2. TALES	Manuscript Found in a Bottle	Ligeia	The Man that was Used Up	The Fall of the House of Usher	William Wilson	The Man of the Crowd	The Murders in the Rue Morgue	A Descent into the Maelström	Eleonora	The Oval Portrait	The Masque of the Red Death	The Pit and the Pendulum	The Tell-Tale Heart	The Gold-Bug	The Black Cat	Purloined Letter	The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar	The Cask of Amontillado	Hop-Frog	3. ESSAYS AND REVIEWS	Letter to	Georgia Scenes	The Drake—Halleck Review (excerpts)	Watkins Tottie	The Philosophy of Furniture	Wyandotté	Music	Time and Space	Twice-Told Tales	The American Drama (excerpts)	Hazlitt	The Philosophy of Composition	Song-Writing	On Imagination	The Veil of the Soul	The Poetic Principle (excerpts)	Notes
language: English
title: The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
titlecomplete: The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
genres: Classics, American, Fantasy, Gothic, Fiction, Short Stories, Literature, 19th Century, Poetry, Horror
ratings_count: 3397
publisher: Penguin Books