Title: Best of Poe [13 stories, 20 poems]
First published: June 1978
Description: 13 stories:
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) 
Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841)
[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)
The Gold-Bug (1843) 
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
Hop-Frog or The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs (1849) 

20 poems:
Alone (1829)
[Annabel Lee](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273456W)
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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41081W)
Sonnet—To Science (1845)
To Helen
To My Mother (1849)
To One In Paradise (1834)
To — (1829)
To — (1849)
Subjects: 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, monograms
Places: Paris, Toledo
People: Father Time, Prince Prospero, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred