Title: The Best Known Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Subtitle: poems, tales, essays, criticisms
Description: Poems
The Gold Bug
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
The Oblong Box
"thou Art the Man"
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W)
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
King Pest
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
Mystification
The Man of the Crowd
[Von Kempelen and His Discovery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25111544W)
The Power of Words
The Colloquy of Monos and Una
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Shadow --
A Parable
[Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Domain of Arnheim](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645889W)
[Landor's Cottage](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646005W)
[Island of the Fay](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645993W)
The Oval Portrait
[Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W)
[Eleonora](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14937980W)
Ligeia
Morella
Metzengerstein
Hop-Frog
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
The Balloon-Hoax
Mellonta Tauta
[Mesmeric Revelation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646037W)
The Case of M. Vandemar
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
A Descent Into the Maelstrom
Ms. Found in a Bottle
The Sphinx
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Spectacles
Three Sundays in a Week
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether
The Angel of the Odd
The Devil in the Belfrey
The Bon-Bon
The Duc de L'omelette
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in Sling
[Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646039W)
A Tale of Jerusalem
Four Beasts in One
Some Words with a Mummy
Loss of Breath
The Man That Was Used Up
The Business Man
Diddling
Lionizing
Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
How to Write a Blackwood Article
A Predicament
X-Ing a Paragrab
Morning on the Wissahiccon
Letter to Mr. B-
The Poetic Principle
The Rational of Verse
The Philosophy of Composition
Eureka
Maelzel's Chess-Player
Cryptography
Subjects: short stories, aristocracy, satire, 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, silence, premature burial, catalepsy, Taphophobia, crypts, phobias, unconsciousness, berths, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, mesmerism, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, self-destructive behavior, metaphors, coroners, hanging, burial vaults, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, biography
Places: England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome, Paris, Valley of the Many-Colored Grass, Heaven, New York, Toledo, Libya, Hebrides, Europe
People: William Wilson, Von Kempelen, Lieutenant Maury, Sinbad the Sailor, Scheherazade, Demon, Father Time, Mr. Vankirk, Prince Prospero, Mr. Landor, Marmontel, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Eleonora, Ermengarde, Mr. Ellison, Mrs. Ellison, Seabright Ellison, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Egaeus, Berenice, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Edgar Allan Poe
Time periods: Carnival