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