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Below lists the complete short stories by Poe during his tragically short life. Click on any title for more information.Edgar Allan Poe was one of the best American short story writers. He was also a prolific author. more
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x The Spectacles Poe the spectacles byam shaw Adolphus Simpson Comedy Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Spectacles" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844. It is one of Poe's comedy tales. The narrator, 22-year old Napoleon Buonaparte, changes his last name from "Froissart" to "Simpson" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from...
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x The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether     Comedy Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" is a comedic short story written by American author Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows a nameless narrator who visits a mental institution in southern France (more accurately, a "Maison de Santé")...
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x The Murders in the Rue Morgue Aubrey Beardsley - Edgar Poe 1 Auguste Dupin Detective fiction Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". Similar works predate Poe's...
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x The Purloined Letter The Purloined Letter Auguste Dupin Detective fiction Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt"...
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x The Mystery of Marie Roget Mystery of Marie Roget Auguste Dupin Detective fiction Published Work Edgar Allan Poe 1842
"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842. This is the first murder mystery based on the details of a real crime. It first appeared in Snowden's...
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x Thou Art the Man     Detective fiction Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe  
"Thou Art the Man," originally titled "Thou Art the Man!," is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844. It is an early experiment in detective fiction, like "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," though it is generally considered an...
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x The Masque of the Red Death Erik in the 1925 version of Phantom of the Opera dressed as the Red Death Prince Prospero Gothic fiction Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death"(1842) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey. He,...
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x The Tell-Tale Heart Illustration by Harry Clarke, detail from 'He shrieked once -once only'   Gothic fiction Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides...
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x The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley Roderick Usher Gothic fiction Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published September 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. It was slightly revised in 1840 for the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. It contains within it the...
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x The Black Cat "The Black Cat", Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, 1894-1895   Horror Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". In both, a...
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x The Cask of Amontillado CaskofAmontillado-Clarke   Horror Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado") is a short story, written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story is set in a nameless Italian city in an...
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x The Oval Portrait     Horror Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Oval Portrait" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its initial publication in 1842. The tale begins with an...
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x The Premature Burial PrematureBurial-Clarke   Horror Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Premature Burial" is a horror short story on the theme of being buried alive, written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. Fear of being buried alive was common in this period and Poe was taking...
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x Ligeia Ligeia-Clarke Ligeia Horror Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe  
"Ligeia" is an early short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1838. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligent raven-haired woman. She falls ill, composes "The Conqueror Worm", and quotes...
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x Metzengerstein Baron Frederick Von Metzengerstein   Horror Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"Metzengerstein", also called "Metzengerstein: A Tale In Imitation of the German", was the first short story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe to see print. It was first published in the pages of Philadelphia's Saturday Courier magazine,...
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x The Oblong Box     Horror Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Oblong Box" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844, about a sea voyage and a mysterious box. The story opens with the unnamed narrator recounting a summer sea voyage from Charleston, South Carolina to New York City aboard...
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x Hop-Frog   Trippetta Horror Published Work Edgar Allan Poe 1849
"Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourangoutangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character is a dwarf taken from his homeland who becomes the jester of a king...
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x Morella     Horror Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe  
"Morella" is a short story by 19th century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. An unnamed narrator marries Morella, a woman who delves into "forbidden pages" of mysticism. As a result of her experimentations her soul can never die, but her...
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x The Angel of the Odd     Humour Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Angel of the Odd" is an 1844 short story written by 19th century author Edgar Allan Poe. It is written as a satire. The story follows an unnamed narrator who reads a story about a man who died after accidentally sucking a needle down his throat...
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x The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion     Science fiction Published Work Edgar Allan Poe 1839
"The Conversation of Eiros And Charmion" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, an apocalyptic science fiction story first published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in 1839. Two people, who have been renamed Eiros and Charmion after death, discuss...
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x A Descent into the Maelstrom Maelstrom-Clarke   Sea story Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"A Descent into the Maelström" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. In the tale, a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool. It has been grouped with Poe's tales of ratiocination and also labeled an early form of science fiction....
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x The Devil in the Belfry     Short story Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Devil in the Belfry" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in 1839. It is a satirical short story, making fun of the United States President Martin Van Buren and his election methods, by ridiculing the inhabitants of...
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x The Gold-Bug The Gold Bug Herpin   Short story Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Gold-Bug" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the plot follows William Legrand, who was recently bitten by a gold-colored bug, as well as his servant Jupiter and an unnamed narrator. Legrand pulls the...
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x William Wilson Poe william wilson byam shaw   Short story Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe  
"William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years outside of London. The tale follows the theme of the doppelgänger and is written in a style based on rationality. It also...
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x MS. Found in a Bottle Baltimore Saturday VisiterOctober 19, 1833   Short story Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe  
"MS. Found in a Bottle" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever...
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x Eleonora Poe eleonora byam shaw Ermengarde Short story Quotation Source Edgar Allan Poe 1842
"Eleonora" is a short story written by American author Edgar Allan Poe, originally published in 1842.
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x The Man of the Crowd     Short story Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Man of the Crowd" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe about a nameless narrator following a man through a crowded London, first published in 1840. The story is introduced with the epigraph, "Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul"—a...
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x The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall     Short story Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in the June 1835 issue of the monthly magazine Southern Literary Messenger, and intended by Poe to be a hoax. Poe planned to continue the hoax in...
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x The Imp of the Perverse     Short story Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Imp of the Perverse" is a short story that begins as an essay written by 19th century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. It discusses the narrator's self-destructive impulses, embodied as the Imp of the Perverse. The narrator describes...
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x The Man That Was Used Up General Winfield Scott may have inspired "The Man That Was Used Up".   Short story Published Work Edgar Allan Poe 1839
"The Man That Was Used Up," sometimes subtitled "A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign," is a short story and satire by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. The story follows an unnamed...
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x Never Bet the Devil Your Head     Short story Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe 1841
"Never Bet the Devil Your Head," often subtitled "A Tale With a Moral," is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1841. The satirical tale pokes fun at the notion that all literature should have a moral and spoofs...
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x The Business Man     Short story Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe 1840
"The Business Man" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe about a fictitious businessman boasting of his accomplishments. It was published in February 1840 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. The story questions the concept of a self-made man....
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x Bon-Bon SLM-Bon-Bon   Short story Published Work Edgar Allan Poe 1832
"Bon-Bon" is a comedic short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in December 1832 in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. Originally called "The Bargain Lost", the story follows a man named Pierre Bon-Bon, who believes himself a profound...
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x A Tale of the Ragged Mountains     Short story Published Work Edgar Allan Poe 1844
"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe partially based on his experiences while a student at the University of Virginia. Set near Charlottesville, it is the only one of Poe's stories to take place in Virginia....
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x The Balloon-Hoax Balloon-Hoax Monck Mason   Written Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Balloon-Hoax" is the title now used for a newspaper article written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844. Originally presented as a true story, it detailed European Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days in a gas...
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x The Pit and the Pendulum PitandthePendulum-Clarke     Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story is...
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x The Light-House       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Light-House" is the unofficial title of the last work written by Edgar Allan Poe. He did not live to finish it, and had barely begun it by the time of his death in 1849. The story is told as a series of diary entries, the first being New Year's...
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x The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Valdemar-Clarke     Published Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also, to a certain...
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x Berenice "Berenice", by Edgar Allan Poe     Work of Fiction Edgar Allan Poe 1835
"Berenice" is a short horror story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1835. The story follows a man named Egaeus who is preparing to marry his cousin Berenice. He has a tendency to fall into periods of intense...
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x Loss of Breath       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe 1832  
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x X-ing a Paragrab       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe 1849  
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x The Duc De L'Omelette       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe 1832  
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x A Tale of Jerusalem       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe 1832
"A Tale of Jerusalem" is a 1832 short story by American author, poet, and critic Edgar Allan Poe.
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x The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe    
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x Four Beasts in One       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe    
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x The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe    
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x Von Kempelen and his Discovery       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe    
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x Mesmeric Revelation       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe    
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x The Island of the Fay       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe    
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x The Assignation       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe    
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x The Domain of Arnheim       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe    
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x Landor's Cottage       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe    
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x King Pest       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe  
"King Pest", also called "King Pest the First -- A Tale Containing an Allegory" is a short story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in Sept. 1835.
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x Three Sundays in a Week       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe 1841  
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x A Predicament Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine XXV 1829 Signora Psyche Zenobia   Published Work Edgar Allan Poe 1838
"A Predicament" is a humorous short story by Edgar Allan Poe, usually combined with its companion piece "How to Write a Blackwood Article." It was originally titled "The Scythe of Time." The bizarre story follows a female narrator, Signora Psyche...
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x Lionizing       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe 1835  
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x Shadow - A Parable       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe 1835  
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x Mystification       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe 1837  
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x Silence - A Fable       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe 1837  
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x How to Write a Blackwood Article       Written Work Edgar Allan Poe 1838  
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