From the mysterious marriage in “Morella”, to the satirical and secretive vistas of “The Man That Was Used Up”, or the depressed Roderick Usher, the reader is facing the first …
“The Man of the Crowd” is a story that deals with the influence of the big city upon the ordinary person. Obsessed with categorization, the protagonist feels baffled by his …
This short story, told in the Gothic tradition represents Poe's first work to be printed, and represents the foundation of what would constitute much of his future work. The tale, …
A classic detective short story shrouded in mystery, "Marie Rogêt" features Poe’s famour investigator C. Auguste Dupin trying to solve a murder case. Based upon an actual murder, …
What would you get if you take Lewis Carroll’s fairy-tale imagination and filter it through Edgar Allan Poe’s terror-ridden and grotesque vision? Add a tint of humour and a pinch …
Teeming with melancholy and vampirism, verging on the sanity’s uttermost rim, Poe’s characters often fall victims to supernatural happenings. Men wishing for their wife’s deaths, …
One of E. A. Poe’s more horror-oriented stories, “The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar” presents the author’s obsession with death, scientific experiments, and resurrection. …
As with “The Cask of Amontillado”, this story is centred around revenge as the only possible outcome for the insulted protagonist. Disrespect breeds revenge, which tinted with …
A dark comedy, threaded through with an unsettling plot twist, 'The System' follows a bumbling narrator through a tour of a mental institution in southern France. The peculiar …
"The Cask of Amontillado" is a classic revenge story where an insulted man, Montresor, exacts his vengeance upon the drunk Fortunato. Just like "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black …
