Title: Essential Tales and Poems [25 stories, 18 poems, 1 essay]
Description: 25 stories:
Metzengerstein
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Shadow: a parable
[Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W)
[Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W)
Morella
Ligeia
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
Hop-frog.
The murders in the Rue Morgue
The mystery of Marie Roget
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibraryorg/works/OL41065W)
The gold bug.
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
Diddling considered as one of the exact sciences
The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.

18 poems:
The lake: to ____
Fairy-land
Alone
Israfel
The valley of unrest
The city in the sea
Lenore
Sonnet: silence
The haunted palace
The conqueror worm
Dream-land
The raven
Ulalume: a ballad
The bells
To Helen
A dream within a dream
Eldorado
Annabel Lee

1 essay:
The philosophy of composition.
Subjects: short stories, aristocracy, 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, 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, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation, Mystery and detective stories, monograms
Places: Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo, Libya, Hebrides, Rome, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford
People: William Wilson, Demon, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Egaeus, Berenice, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus