...You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded--with
what caution--with what foresight--with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than
during the whole week before I killed him. And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and
opened it--oh, so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern,
all closed, closed, so that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head. Oh, you would have laughed to see
how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly--very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep.
It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed.
Ha!--would a madman have been so wise as this? And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern
cautiously--oh, so cautiously--cautiously (for the hinges creaked)--I undid it just so much that a single thin
ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights--every night just at midnight--but I found
the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his
Evil Eye.
The Tell-Tale Heart
"This volume displays Poe's extraordinary range and accomplished technique, as well as his uncanny gift
for revealing the darker possibilities of human experience. "No one can ask for more."
--American Literature
"...the first truly dependable collection of Poe’s poetry and tales…Poe is central to the American canon,
both for us and for the rest of the world."
--Harold Bloom, New York Review of Books
"To a neglected extent [Poe’s] stories are also about a special aspect of anxiety: hope. They often detail
the moment during an unfolding tragedy or danger when the human mind gives in to hope, only to be the more bitterly
disappointed. Over and over, a despairing hero is tempted, by a blush on the bosom of the supposedly dead loved
one, or by a momentary respite in some torture, to hope—especially that the dead will come back to life, but also
that the narrator is not after all guilty of causing death, or will obtain mercy and reprieve. It is a vein…[that]
explains the quasi-mystical quality of Poe’s stories, and their similarity to, and use as, myths."
--Diane Johnson, The New York Times Book Review
"…the soul of Poe’s literary legacy."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"This is an edition truly reflective of the best American publishing has to offer. "
--Midwest Book Review
Library of America Web Site, May, 2001
Poe's complete poetry and fiction, collected for the first time, including his remarkable and haunting poems,
his classic tales of mystery, horror, and suspense, and his humorous sketches. Includes famous stories such as
"The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," along with his most popular
poems such as "Annabel Lee" and lesser-known works, and his unusual prose-poem "Eureka.
Poetry (Poem titles not given by Poe are indicated by quotation marks)
Preface: (Tamerlane and Other Poems 1827)
Letter to Mr.-- (Poems 1831)
Preface: (The Raven and Other Poems--1845)
O, Tempora! O, Mores!
To Margaret
"To Octavia"
Tamerlane
Song
Dreams
Spirits of the Dead
Evening Star
Imitation
"Stanzas"
A Dream
"The Happiest Day"
The Lake--To --
Sonnet--To Science
Al Aaraaf
"Mysterious Star!"
Romance
Introduction
To-- ("The bowers whereat")
To the River--
To-- ("I heed not")
Fairy Land
Fairy-Land
"Alone"
"To Isaac Lea"
Elizabeth
An Acrostic
"Lines on Joe Locke"
To Helen
Israfel
The Sleeper
The Valley of Unrest
The City in the Sea
Lenore
To One in Paradise
Hymn
Enigma
Serenade
The Coliseum
To F--s S. O--d
To F--
Bridal Ballad
Sonnet--To Zante
The Haunted Palace
Sonnet--Silence
The Conqueror Worm
Dream-Land
Eulalie--A
The Raven
A Valentine to --- --- ---
"Deep in Earth"
To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter
To M. L. S --
To --- --- --- ("Not long ago")
Ulalume--A Ballad
An Enigma
The Bells
To Helen
A Dream within a Dream
For Annie
Eldorado
To My Mother
Annabel Lee
Scenes from "Politian"
Scene I
Scene II
Scene III
Scene IV
Scene V
Tales and Sketches
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
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 Maelstrom
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 Roget
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
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 Paragraph"
The Lighthouse
PLATE ARTICLES
Some Account of Stonehenge, the Giant's
The Island of the Fay
Morning on the Wissahiccon
Byron and Miss Chaworth
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
The Journal of Julius Rodman
Eureka: A Prose Poem
Chronology
Note on the Texts
Notes
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
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