The classic poems and spine-tingling stories of an American gothic master collected in one volume. The best of each of these is collected here, including the classic poem "The Raven," and beloved stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart." In his introduction to this volume, G. R. Thompson argues that Poe was a great satirist and comedic craftsman, as well as a formidable Gothic writer

Dreams -- Spirits of the dead -- Evening star -- A dream within a dream -- Stanzas : in youth have I known -- A dream -- The happiest day-- the happiest hour -- The lake-- to-- Sonnet-- to science -- To-- : the Bowers wherat, in dreams I see -- Fairy-land -- Introduction -- Alone -- To Helen -- Israfel -- The city in the sea -- The sleeper -- The valley of unrest -- Lenore -- To one in paradise -- The coliseum -- The haunted place -- Sonnet-- silence -- The conqueror worm -- Dream-land -- The raven -- Ulalume-- a ballad -- The bells -- Eldorado -- For Annie -- Annabel Lee -- Metzengerstein : a tale in imitation of the German -- Loss of breath : a tale á la Blackwood -- MS : found in a bottle -- The assignation (the visionary) -- Berenice -- Some passages from the life of a lion (lionizing) -- Shadow-- a parable -- Silence-- a fable -- Ligeia -- How to write a Blackwood article : a predicament -- The fall of the House of Usher -- William Wilson -- The man of the crowd -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- A descent into the maelström -- The colloquy of Monos and Una -- Never bet the devil your head : a tale with a moral -- The oval portrait -- The masque of the red death -- The pit and the pendulum -- The tell-tale heart -- The black cat -- A tale of the ragged mountains -- The premature burial -- The purloined letter -- Some words with a mummy -- The imp of the preverse -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- The sphinx -- The cask of Amontillado -- Hop-frog, or, The eight chained ourang-outangs -- Review of Twice-told tales -- The philosophy of compositions -- Excerpts from The poetic principle