Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe left 12 works in this house — read them for the pressure they put on ordinary feeling.
The writings
Short story
Short story · 1839
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
The Fall of the House of Usher
1839 · Gothic fiction · Horror
A narrator visits a childhood friend in a cracked house that will not outlive its family.
Short story · 1843
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
The Tell-Tale Heart
1843 · Gothic fiction · Horror
A murderer insists on his sanity while a dead man's heart keeps beating under the floorboards.
Short story · 1846
The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
The Cask of Amontillado
1846 · Gothic fiction · Horror
Montresor walls Fortunato into the catacombs over an unnamed insult.
Short story · 1842
The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
The Masque of the Red Death
1842 · Allegory · Gothic fiction
Prince Prospero seals a thousand nobles inside an abbey while plague takes the country.
Short story · 1842
The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
The Pit and the Pendulum
1842 · Horror · Short story
A prisoner of the Inquisition maps his cell in total darkness.
Short story · 1841
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
1841 · Detective fiction · Short story
C. Auguste Dupin solves an impossible locked-room killing in Paris.
Short story · 1844
The Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
The Purloined Letter
1844 · Detective fiction · Short story
The stolen letter everyone searches for is lying in plain sight.
Poem
Poem · 1845
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
The Raven
1845 · Narrative poem · Gothic
A bereaved scholar questions a bird that answers only 'Nevermore'.
Poem · 1849
Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Annabel Lee
1849 · Lyric · Ballad
A love the angels envied, and a tomb by the sounding sea.
