The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
Subtitle: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews
Contributors: David Galloway (Editor)
Edition: Penguin Classics Reprint
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1987
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780140432916
First sentence: How often we forget all time, when lone
Description: And much of Madness and more of Sin 
And Horror the Soul of the Plot

The 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 Writings
Notes: UK/AUS/CAN/NZ/USA
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Note on the Text; title: 1. POEMS; title: Stanzas; title: Sonnet — To Science; title: A1 Aaraaf; title: Romance; title: To Helen; title: Israfel; title: The City in the Sea; title: The Sleeper; title: Lenore; title: The valley of Unrest; title: The Raven; title: Ulalume; title: For Annie; title: A Valentine; title: Annabel Lee; title: The Bells; title: Eldorado; title: 2. TALES; title: Manuscript Found in a Bottle; title: Ligeia; title: The Man that was Used Up; title: The Fall of the House of Usher; title: William Wilson; title: The Man of the Crowd; title: The Murders in the Rue Morgue; title: A Descent into the Maelström; title: Eleonora; title: The Oval Portrait; title: The Masque of the Red Death; title: The Pit and the Pendulum; title: The Tell-Tale Heart; title: The Gold-Bug; title: The Black Cat; title: Purloined Letter; title: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; title: The Cask of Amontillado; title: Hop-Frog; title: 3. ESSAYS AND REVIEWS; title: Letter to; title: Georgia Scenes; title: The Drake—Halleck Review (excerpts); title: Watkins Tottie; title: The Philosophy of Furniture; title: Wyandotté; title: Music; title: Time and Space; title: Twice-Told Tales; title: The American Drama (excerpts); title: Hazlitt; title: The Philosophy of Composition; title: Song-Writing; title: On Imagination; title: The Veil of the Soul; title: The Poetic Principle (excerpts); title: Notes