Contents

Preface to Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

The Folio Club

Metzengerstein

The Duc De L’Omelette

A Tale of Jerusalem

Loss of Breath

Bon-Bon

Four Beasts in One—The Homo-Cameleopard

MS. Found in a Bottle

The Assignation

Lionizing

Shadow—A Parable

Silence—A Fable

Berenice

Morella

King Pest

Mystification

Ligeia

How to Write a Blackwood Article

The Devil in the Belfry

The Man That Was Used Up

The Fall of the House of Usher

William Wilson

The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion

Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling

Instinct vs Reason—A Black Cat

The Business Man

The Philosophy of Furniture

The Man of the Crowd

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

A Descent into the Maelström

The Colloquy of Monos and Una

Never Bet the Devil Your Head

Eleonora

Three Sundays in a Week

The Oval Portrait

The Masque of the Red Death

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Gold-Bug

The Black Cat

Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences

The Spectacles

The Oblong Box

A Tale of the Ragged Mountains

The Premature Burial

The Purloined Letter

The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

Mesmeric Revelation

“Thou Art the Man”

The Balloon-Hoax

The Angel of the Odd

The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.

The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade

Some Words with a Mummy

The Power of Words

The Imp of the Perverse

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

The Sphinx

The Cask of Amontillado

The Domain of Arnheim

Mellonta Tauta

Landor’s Cottage

Hop-Frog

Von Kempelen and His Discovery

‘X-ing a Paragrab’

The Light-House

PLATE ARTICLES

Some Account of Stonehenge, the Giant’s Dance

The Island of the Fay

Morning on the Wissahiccon

Byron and Miss Chaworth