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Complete Works of E. A. Poe

Short Tales......................................................................................................................... 6
The Angel of the Odd: An Extravaganza ................................................................... 6
The Assignation........................................................................................................... 14
The Balloon-Hoax ....................................................................................................... 23
Berenice........................................................................................................................ 32
The Black Cat.............................................................................................................. 38
Bon-Bon ....................................................................................................................... 45
The Business Man ....................................................................................................... 58
The Cask of Amontillado............................................................................................ 65
The Colloquy of Monos and Una............................................................................... 72
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion ............................................................... 79
A Descent into the Maelström.................................................................................... 84
The Devil in the Belfry................................................................................................ 96
Diddling...................................................................................................................... 102
The Domain of Arnheim, or The Landscape Garden............................................ 110
The Duc De L'omelette ............................................................................................. 120
Eleonora..................................................................................................................... 123
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar.................................................................... 127
The Fall of the House of Usher ................................................................................ 134
Four Beasts in One; The Homo-Camelopard......................................................... 147
The Gold-Bug ............................................................................................................ 153
Hop-Frog.................................................................................................................... 181
How To Write A Blackwood Article ....................................................................... 189
The Imp of the Perverse ........................................................................................... 197
The Island of the Fay ................................................................................................ 202
King Pest.................................................................................................................... 206
Landor's Cottage....................................................................................................... 215
Ligeia.......................................................................................................................... 224
Lionizing .................................................................................................................... 235
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq ................................................................. 241
Loss of Breath............................................................................................................ 255
The Man of the Crowd ............................................................................................. 264
The Man That Was Used Up ................................................................................... 270
The Masque of the Red Death.................................................................................. 278
Mellonta Tauta.......................................................................................................... 282
Mesmeric Revelation ................................................................................................ 292
Metzengerstein .......................................................................................................... 300
Morella....................................................................................................................... 307
Ms. Found in a Bottle................................................................................................ 311
The Murders In The Rue Morgue........................................................................... 318
The Mystery of Marie Roget.................................................................................... 343
Mystification.............................................................................................................. 376
Never Bet the Devil Your Head ............................................................................... 382
The Oblong Box......................................................................................................... 389
The Oval Portrait...................................................................................................... 397
The Pit and the Pendulum........................................................................................ 400
The Power of Words ................................................................................................. 411
A Predicament........................................................................................................... 415
The Premature Burial............................................................................................... 422
The Purloined Letter ................................................................................................ 432
Shadow --- A Parable................................................................................................ 447
Silence --- A Fable ..................................................................................................... 449
Some Words with a Mummy ................................................................................... 452
The Spectacles ........................................................................................................... 465
The Sphinx................................................................................................................. 483
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether ................................................. 487
A Tale of Jerusalem .................................................................................................. 502
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains ............................................................................. 505
The Tell-Tale Heart .................................................................................................. 513
"Thou Art the Man"................................................................................................. 517
The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade ................................................ 528
Three Sundays in a Week......................................................................................... 542
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall .................................................. 548
Von Kempelen and His Discovery........................................................................... 582
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling ........................................ 587
William Wilson.......................................................................................................... 591
X-Ing a Paragrab ...................................................................................................... 605
Poems ............................................................................................................................. 610
AL AARAAF¹ Part I................................................................................................. 610
AL AARAAF Part II ................................................................................................ 614
Alone........................................................................................................................... 622
Annabel Lee............................................................................................................... 624
The Bells..................................................................................................................... 626
Bridal Ballad.............................................................................................................. 630
The City In The Sea .................................................................................................. 632
The Coliseum............................................................................................................. 634
The Conqueror Worm.............................................................................................. 636
A Dream..................................................................................................................... 638
A Dream Within A Dream ....................................................................................... 639
Dreamland ................................................................................................................. 640
Dreams ....................................................................................................................... 642
Eldorado..................................................................................................................... 644
Elizabeth* .................................................................................................................. 645
An Enigma ................................................................................................................. 646
Eulalie......................................................................................................................... 647
Evening Star .............................................................................................................. 648
Fairy-Land................................................................................................................. 649
For Annie ................................................................................................................... 651
The Happiest Day...................................................................................................... 655
The Haunted Palace.................................................................................................. 656
Hymn.......................................................................................................................... 658
Imitation..................................................................................................................... 659
Israfel ......................................................................................................................... 661
The Lake--To -- ......................................................................................................... 663
Lenore ........................................................................................................................ 664
The Raven .................................................................................................................. 665
Romance..................................................................................................................... 669
Serenade..................................................................................................................... 670
Silence......................................................................................................................... 672
Song ............................................................................................................................ 675
Sonnet--To Science.................................................................................................... 676
Spirits of the Dead..................................................................................................... 677
Stanzas ....................................................................................................................... 678
Tamerlane.................................................................................................................. 680
To---............................................................................................................................ 688
To F--- ........................................................................................................................ 690
To F--S S. O--D.......................................................................................................... 691
To Helen*................................................................................................................... 692
To Helen*................................................................................................................... 693
To M--- ....................................................................................................................... 696
To M. L. S-----............................................................................................................ 697
To My Mother ........................................................................................................... 698
To One In Paradise ................................................................................................... 699
To The River ---......................................................................................................... 700
To Zante..................................................................................................................... 701
Ulalume ...................................................................................................................... 702
A Valentine ................................................................................................................ 705
The Valley Of Unrest................................................................................................ 706
Long Tale:...................................................................................................................... 708
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym.................................................................................... 708
Narrative of Pym: Preface.................................................................................... 708
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 1 ............................................................................... 711
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 2 ............................................................................... 717
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 3 ............................................................................... 726
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 4 ............................................................................... 732
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 5 ............................................................................... 737
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 6 ............................................................................... 742
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 7 ............................................................................... 748
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 8 ............................................................................... 753
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 9 ............................................................................... 759
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 10 ............................................................................. 764
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 11 ............................................................................. 767
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 12 ............................................................................. 772
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 13 ............................................................................. 778
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 14 ............................................................................. 785
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 15 ............................................................................. 791
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 16 ............................................................................. 794
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 17 ............................................................................. 798
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 18 ............................................................................. 802
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 19 ............................................................................. 807
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 20 ............................................................................. 811
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 21 ............................................................................. 815
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 22 ............................................................................. 818
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 23 ............................................................................. 823
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 24 ............................................................................. 826
Narrative of Pym: Chapter 25 ............................................................................. 831
Narrative of Pym: Note ........................................................................................ 835

Short Tales
The Angel of the Odd: An Extravaganza

I T was a chilly November afternoon. I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining-room, with my feet upon the fender, and at my elbow a small table which I had rolled up to the fire, and upon which were some apologies for dessert, with some miscellaneous bottles of wine, spirit and liqueur. In the morning I had been reading Glover's "Leonidas," Wilkie's "Epigoniad," Lamartine's "Pilgrimage," Barlow's "Columbiad," Tuckermann's "Sicily," and Griswold's "Curiosities" ; I am willing to confess, therefore, that I now felt a little stupid. I made effort to arouse myself by aid of frequent Lafitte, and, all failing, I betook myself to a stray newspaper in despair. Having carefully perused the column of "houses to let," and the column of "dogs lost," and then the two columns of "wives and apprentices runaway," I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and, reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more satisfactory result. I was about throwing away, in disgust,

"The avenues to death are numerous and strange. A London paper mentions the decease of a person from a singular cause. He was playing at 'puff the dart,' which is played with a long needle inser