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The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
Have you ever wondered what would have happened if Scheherazade had not ceased with her tales and told the king another story that is actually a retelling of a previous story, but …
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
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, …
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque II
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, …
The Oval Portrait
Perhaps fitting for a horror short story, the devil is in the details in Poe’s "The Oval Portrait" (1842).A benighted traveller finds shelter in an abandoned mansion in the …
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
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. …
William Wilson
Inspired by Poe’s own tragic life, the short story clearly presages Freud’s method of psychoanalysis. In a very Fight-club-like plot and situations, “William Wilson” is a journey …
The Journal of Julius Rodman
An authentic description of an expedition across the heart of the Rocky Mountains that turned out to be an elaborate hoax."The Journal of Julius Rodman" is Edgar Allen Poe’s second …
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
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 …