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Tales of Mystery and Imagination [29 stories]

by Edgar Allan Poe

First Published

2009

Subjects

short stories
aristocracy
American Horror tales
American literature
Children's fiction
Classic Literature
Crime
Crime fiction
Detective and mystery stories
Fiction
first-person narrative
Gothic fiction
Homicide
Horror
Horror fiction
Horror stories
Horror tales
Hyperesthesia
Juvenile fiction
Murder
silence
premature burial
catalepsy
Taphophobia
crypts
phobias
unconsciousness
berths
American fiction
American Short stories
fear
pendulums
Spanish Inquisition
abbeys
daggers
Hematidrosis
Juvenile audience
masquerade balls
nobility
plagues
shrouds
burial vaults
dragons
hermitages
heroic romances
hysteria
knights
maces
psychogenic death
tarns
Mesmerism
suspense
hoaxes
narration
pseudoscience
Hypnagogia
animal magnetism
hypnotism
tuberculosis
embedded narrative
mountaineering
whirlpools
vortex
Ratiocination
Revenge
cats
short story
unreliable narrators
self-hatred
gallows
obsessive-compulsive disorder
monomania
fixation
Detective and mystery fiction
Illustrated works
Thrillers (Fiction)
Illustrations
death
violence
anxiety
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Children's stories, American
Fiction, horror
American Detective and mystery stories

Description

Tales of Mystery and Imagination, London: George Harrap and New York: Brentanos, 1919. (This famous and frequently copied collection features elaborate illustrations by Harry Clarke. The original edition comprised 24 black and white illustrations, plus front cover and spine illustration and 10 decorative tailpieces. The book was so well received that it was reissued in 1923 with 8 additional illustrations in full color. It was reprinted in New York by Tudor in 1933, 1935, 1936 and 1939. These illustrations have been reprinted numerous times, most notably in London by Chancellor Press in 1985.) [(source)](https://www.eapoe.org/works/editions/index.htm#poe) Contains: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) Bon-Bon [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) Colloquy of Monos and Una Conversation of Eiros and Charmion [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) Gold Bug King Pest [Landor's Cottage](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646005W) Ligeia Lionizing Man of the Crowd [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Metzengerstein Morella Ms. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Mystery of Marie Roget Oblong Box [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W) Spectacles [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)

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