Edgar Allan Poe
Born	1809
Died	1849 (aged 40)
Language	English
Genre	Gothic Fiction, Mystery
Nationality	American
Gender	Male

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American author who primarily wrote in English.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American writer known for his macabre and Gothic tales. His works, including “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Raven,” are celebrated for their dark and psychological themes. Poe’s contributions to the horror and mystery genres have left an indelible mark on literature.

Short Stories written by Edgar Allan Poe

A Descent Into the Maelstrom 1889 - WE had now reached the summit of the loftiest crag. For some minutes the old man seemed too much exhausted… ... Read more
A Predicament 1824 - What chance, good lady, hath bereft you thus? --COMUS. IT was a quiet and still afternoon when I strolled forth… ... Read more
A Tale of Jerusalem 1824 - LET us hurry to the walls," said Abel-Phittim to Buzi-Ben-Levi and Simeon the Pharisee, on the tenth day of the… ... Read more
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 1824 - DURING the fall of the year 1827, while residing near Charlottesville, Virginia, I casually made the acquaintance of Mr. Augustus… ... Read more
A Voyage to the Moon 1919 - I After a long and arduous devotion to the study of physics and astronomy, I, Hans Pfaal of Rotterdam, at… ... Read more
Berenice 1824 - Dicebant mihi sodales, si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum forelevatas. - Ebn Zaiat . MISERY is manifold. The wretchedness… ... Read more
Bon-Bon 1824 - Quand un bon vin meuble mon estomac Je suis plus savant que Balzac- Plus sage que Pibrac; Mon brass seul… ... Read more
Diddling 1824 - CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE EXACT SCIENCES. Hey, diddle diddle The cat and the fiddle SINCE the world began there… ... Read more
Eleonora 1824 - I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad;… ... Read more
Four Beasts in One 1824 - Chacun a ses vertus. Crebillon's Xerxes. Antiochus Epiphanes is very generally looked upon as the Gog of the prophet Ezekiel.… ... Read more
Hop-Frog 1849 - I NEVER knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for… ... Read more
How to Write a Blackwood Article 1824 - "In the name of the Prophet -- figs !!" Cry of the Turkish fig-peddler. I PRESUME everybody has heard of… ... Read more
King Pest 1824 - A Tale Containing an Allegory. The gods do bear and will allow in kings The things which they abhor in… ... Read more
Landor’s Cottage 1824 - A Pendant to "The Domain of Arnheim" DURING A pedestrian trip last summer, through one or two of the river… ... Read more
Ligeia 1824 - And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the, mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God… ... Read more
Lionizing 1824 - -------- all people went Upon their ten toes in wild wonderment. -- Bishop Hall's Satires . I AM - that… ... Read more
Loss of Breath 1824 - O Breathe not, etc. Moore's Melodies The most notorious ill-fortune must in the end yield to the untiring courage of… ... Read more
Mellonta Tauta 1824 - TO THE EDITORS OF THE LADY'S BOOK: I have the honor of sending you, for your magazine, an article which… ... Read more
Mesmeric Revelation 1824 - WHATEVER doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Of these latter,… ... Read more
Metzengerstein 1824 - Pestis eram vivus - moriens tua mors ero. -- Martin Luther HORROR and fatality have been stalking abroad in all… ... Read more
Morella 1824 - Itself, by itself, solely, one everlasting, and single.--PLATO: SYMPOS. WITH a feeling of deep yet most singular affection I regarded… ... Read more
MS. Found in a Bottle 1824 - Qui n'a plus qu'un moment a vivre N'a plus rien a dissimuler. -- Quinault -- Atys. OF my country and… ... Read more
Mystification 1824 - Slid, if these be your "passados" and "montantes," I'll have none o' them. -- NED KNOWLES. THE BARON RITZNER VON… ... Read more
Never Bet the Devil Your Head 1841 - A Tale With a Moral. "Con tal que las costumbres de un autor ," says Don Thomas de las Torres,… ... Read more
Old English Poetry 1824 - It should not be doubted that at least one-third of the affection with which we regard the elder poets of… ... Read more
Philosophy of Furniture 1824 - In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have… ... Read more
Shadow 1824 - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the Shadow: Psalm of David. YE who read are still among the… ... Read more
Silence — a Fable 1824 - ALCMAN. The mountain pinnacles slumber; valleys, crags and caves are silent. "LISTEN to me," said the Demon as he placed… ... Read more
Some Words with a Mummy 1824 - THE symposium of the preceding evening had been a little too much for my nerves. I had a wretched headache,… ... Read more
The Angel of the Odd 1844 - It was a chilly November afternoon. I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed… ... Read more
The Assignation 1824 - Stay for me there ! I will not fail. To meet thee in that hollow vale. [ Exequy on the… ... Read more
The Balloon Hoax 1824 - ASTOUNDING NEWS BY EXPRESS, VIA NORFOLK!The Atlantic Crossed in Three Days!Signal Triumph of Mr. Monck Mason's Flying Machine!Arrival at Sullivan's… ... Read more
The Black Cat 1843 - FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.… ... Read more
The Business Man 1824 - Method is the soul of business. OLD SAYING. I am a business man. I am a methodical man. Method is… ... Read more
The Cask of Amontillado 1919 - THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed… ... Read more
The Devil in the Belfry 1824 - EVERYBODY knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is -- or, alas, was -- the… ... Read more
The Domain of Arnheim 1824 - The garden like a lady fair was cut, That lay as if she slumbered in delight, And to the open… ... Read more
The Duc de L’Omelette 1824 - And stepped at once into a cooler clime.Cowper Keats fell by a criticism. Who was it died of "The Andromache"?1… ... Read more
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 1824 - OF course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. Valdemar… ... Read more
The Fall of the House of Usher 1839 - Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitot qu'on le touche il resonne. --De Beranger. DURING the whole of a dull,… ... Read more
The Gold-Bug 1824 - What ho! what ho! this fellow is dancing mad! He hath been bitten by the Tarantula. --All in the Wrong.… ... Read more
The Imp of the Perverse 1824 - In the consideration of the faculties and impulses -- of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have… ... Read more
The Island of the Fay 1824 - Nullus enim locus sine genio est. -- Servius . "LA MUSIQUE," says Marmontel, in those "Contes Moraux" which in all… ... Read more
The Landscape Garden 1824 - The garden like a lady fair was cut That lay as if she slumbered in delight, And to the open… ... Read more
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 1824 - I am now growing in years, andsince I understand that Shakespeare and Mr. Emmons are deceasedit is not impossible that… ... Read more
The Man of the Crowd 1824 - "Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir tre seul," ~Geoffroy de La Bruyre It was well said of a certain German… ... Read more
The Man That Was Used Up 1824 - Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux, et fondez vous en eau! La moitie de ma vie a mis l'autre au tombeau. CORNEILLE… ... Read more
The Masque of the Red Death 1824 - The red death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was… ... Read more
The Murders in the Rue Morgue 1841 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are… ... Read more
The Mystery of Marie Roget 1824 - THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET. There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled… ... Read more
The Oblong Box 1824 - Some years ago, I engaged passage from Charleston, S. C, to the city of New York, in the fine packet-ship… ... Read more
The Oval Portrait 1824 - The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded… ... Read more
The Pit and the Pendulum 1842 - Impia tortorum longas hic turba furores Sanguinis innocui non satiata, aluit. Sospite nunc patria, fracto nunc funeris antro, Mors ubi… ... Read more
The Power of Words 1824 - OINOS. Pardon, Agathos, the weakness of a spirit new-fledged with immortality! AGATHOS. You have spoken nothing, my Oinos, for which… ... Read more
The Premature Burial 1824 - THERE are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of… ... Read more
The Purloined Letter 1844 - At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18 -- , I was enjoying the twofold… ... Read more
The Spectacles 1824 - MANY years ago, it was the fashion to ridicule the idea of "love at first sight;" but those who think,… ... Read more
The Sphinx 1824 - DURING the dread reign of the Cholera in New York, I had accepted the invitation of a relative to spend… ... Read more
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether 1824 - DURING the autumn of 18--, while on a tour through the extreme southern provinces of France, my route led me… ... Read more
The Tell-Tale Heart 1919 - TRUE!-NERVOUS--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! but why will you say that I am mad? The disease… ... Read more
The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade 1845 - Truth is stranger than fiction. Old saying. Having had occasion, lately, in the course of some Oriental investigations, to consult… ... Read more
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade 1824 - Truth is stranger than fiction. -Old saying. HAVING had occasion, lately, in the course of some Oriental investigations, to consult… ... Read more
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall 1824 - Enjoy reading Poe's strange story by its alternate title, . ... Read more
Thou Art the Man 1824 - I will now play the Oedipus to the Rattleborough enigma. I will expound to you -- as I alone can… ... Read more
Three Sundays in a Week 1824 - YOU hard-headed, dunder-headed, obstinate, rusty, crusty, musty, fusty, old savage!" said I, in fancy, one afternoon, to my grand uncle… ... Read more
Von Kempelen and his Discovery 1824 - AFTER THE very minute and elaborate paper by Arago, to say nothing of the summary in 'Silliman's Journal,' with the… ... Read more
Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling 1824 - It's on my visiting cards sure enough (and it's them that's all o' pink satin paper) that inny gintleman that… ... Read more
William Wilson 1824 - What say of it? what say of CONSCIENCE grim, That spectre in my path? Chamberlayne's Pharronida. LET me call myself,… ... Read more
X-ing a Paragrab 1824 - AS it is well known that the 'wise men' came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from… ... Read more