Tales of mystery and horror: Murders in the Rue Morgue -- Mystery of Marie Roget -- Black cat -- Gold-bug -- Ligeia -- Descent into the maelstrom -- Tell-tale heart -- Purloined letter -- Assignation -- MS found in a bottle -- William Wilson -- Berenice -- Fall of the house of Usher -- Cask of Amontillado -- Pit and the pendulum -- Tale of the ragged mountains -- Man of the crowd -- Morella -- "Thou art the man" -- Oblong box -- Conversation of Eiros and Charmion -- Metzengerstein -- Masque of the Red Death -- Premature burial -- Imp of the perverse -- Facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- Hop-Frog -- Humor and satire: System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether -- Literary life of Thingum Bob, Esq. -- How to write a Blackwood article -- Predicament -- Mystification -- Loss of breath -- Man that was used up -- Diddling -- Angel of the odd -- Mellonta Tauta -- Thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade -- X-ing a paragrab -- Business man -- Tale of Jerusalem -- Sphinx -- Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling -- Bon-bon -- Duc De L'Omelette -- Three Sundays in a week -- Devil in the belfry -- Lionizing -- Some words with a mummy -- Spectacles -- Four beasts in one -- Never bet the devil your head -- Flights and fantasies: Balloon-hoax -- Mesmeric revelation -- Eleonora -- Unparalleled adventure of one Hans Pfaall -- King pest -- Island of the Fay -- Oval protrait -- Domain of Arnheim -- Landor's cottage -- Power of words -- Colloquy of Monos and Una -- Shadow--a parable -- Silence--a fable -- Von Kempelen and his discovery -- Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket -- Poem: Annabel Lee -- To my mother -- Hymn -- Valentine -- Fairy-land -- To Helen -- Isafel -- City in the sea -- Sleeper -- Lenore -- Valley of unrest -- Coliseum -- Sonnet to Zante -- Bridal ballad to ... -- Sonnet--silence -- Dream-land -- Eulalie--a song -- To F... -- To F...S S. O...D -- Raven -- To M. L. S... -- Ulalume -- To ... -- To Helen -- Enigman -- For Annie -- Bells -- Eldorado -- Dream within a dream -- Stanzas -- Dream -- "Happiest day, the happiest hour" -- Lake: To ... -- Sonnet--to science -- Al Aaraaf -- Romance -- To ... -- To the river... -- To ... -- Tamerlane -- To ... -- Dreams -- Spirits of the dead -- Evening star -- Elizabeth -- Serenade -- Imitation -- Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius -- Scenes from "Politian" -- Paean -- To Isadore -- Alone -- To one in paradise -- The haunted palace -- The conqueror worm -- Edgar Allan Poe--a biographical note.