Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart – one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the character of Man.’Including Poe’s most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the ultimate collection of the infamous author’s macabre works.Considered to be one of the earliest American writers to encapsulate the genre of detective-fiction, the collection features some of his most popular tales.‘The Gold-Bug’ is the only tale that was popular in his lifetime, whereas ‘The Black Cat’, ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ and ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ became more widely read after his death.Focussing on the internal conflict of individuals, the power of the dead over the living, and psychological explorations of darker human emotion that appear to anticipate Sigmund Freud’s later theories on the psyche, Poe’s Gothic terror stories are considered masterpieces the world over.

TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION

Edgar Allan Poe

CONTENTS

Cover (#u0cbf4e55-173c-54ff-a1f2-6cc2e1c7841e)

Title Page (#u78fc691b-bd5b-5e43-8b21-aebe768ddb97)

Chapter 1: The Gold Bug (#u2001001d-e3cc-5aa3-9a70-24a537131241)

Chapter 2: The Balloon Hoax (#u80bd7e4d-68bf-53ed-85b5-3a9fec122009)

The Balloon (#ulink_5e52b82e-1fed-53b9-9769-f4d77bd9b48d)

The Journal (#ulink_ea14ac71-611d-5fc7-b892-da266481d744)

Chapter 3: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (#uae5efd46-6298-5df2-98c8-86b562d62b86)

Chapter 4: MS. Found in a Bottle (#u9e63fb50-d71d-5eb6-b5e0-3b21695d27db)

Chapter 5: A Descent into the Maelström (#u568facbf-b50e-58a9-a439-61df141cc376)

Chapter 6: The Black Cat (#u81e662e3-c10f-52bc-adf8-09c80da3cd02)

Chapter 7: The Fall of the House of Usher (#u53ec0d57-8c0b-5755-91d2-a6ea8762ba67)

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III (#litres_trial_promo)

IV (#litres_trial_promo)

V (#litres_trial_promo)

VI (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8: The Pit and the Pendulum (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9: The Premature Burial (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10: The Masque of the Red Death (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11: The Cask of Amontillado (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12: The Imp of the Perverse (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13: The Island of the Fay (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14: The Oval Portrait (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15: The Tell-Tale Heart (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16: The Domain of Arnheim (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17: Landor’s Cottage A Pendant to ‘The Domain of Arnheim’ (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18: The Assignation: Venice (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19: William Wilson (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 20: Berenice (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21: Eleonora (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22: Ligeia (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 23: The Murders in the Rue Morgue (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 24: The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

A Sequel to ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue.’ (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 25: The Purloined Letter (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 26: The Colloquy of MONOS and UNA (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 27: The Conversation of EIROS and CHARMION (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 28: A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (#litres_trial_promo)

Classic Literature: Words and Phrase Adapted from the Collins English Dictionary (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

History of Collins (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 1 The Gold Bug (#ulink_dbf40147-7871-5c63-acbc-0ac51ab0ef62)