Complete Works

All Novels and Short Stories

Edgar Allan Poe

• Publisher: Cactus
• eBook ISBN:
  9791256796618
• Year: 2026

Before Sherlock Holmes, there was the armchair logician who never fired a shot. Before the psychological thriller, there was the murderer who hears his victim's heart beating from beneath the floorboards. Before every unreliable narrator who ever lied to us, there was the gentleman who insisted—too calmly—that he was not mad. Edgar Allan Poe did not merely write stories, he performed experiments. And in his tales of terror, he turned the Gothic inward. The true abyss is not the grave, it is the space between one thought and the next. His protagonists do not flee from ghosts; they are trapped inside minds that have turned against themselves. Poe was the first writer to approach the short story as a machine designed to produce a single effect —every sentence, every syllable, calibrated to deliver one overwhelming impression before the reader could look away. The laboratory he built proved inexhaustible. From the symbolists of Paris to the noir corridors of Hollywood, from cosmic horror to the forensic procedural, the DNA of modern genre fiction is written in his hand. These Complete Works give us a new way of seeing—the conviction that the darkest alleys of the city and the darkest corridors of the mind are illuminated by the same cold, brilliant light.

Table of contents

• EDGAR ALLAN POE AN APPRECIATION
• EDGAR ALLAN POE
• DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE
• THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL (*1)
• THE GOLD-BUG
• FOUR BEASTS IN ONE—THE HOMO-CAMELEOPARD
• THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
• THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET.(*1)
• THE BALLOON-HOAX
• MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE
• THE OVAL PORTRAIT
• THE PURLOINED LETTER
• THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE
• A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM.
• VON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY
• MESMERIC REVELATION
• THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR
• THE BLACK CAT.
• THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
• SILENCE—A FABLE
• THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH.
• THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO.
• THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE
• THE ISLAND OF THE FAY
• THE ASSIGNATION
• THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
• THE PREMATURE BURIAL
• THE DOMAIN OF ARNHEIM
• LANDOR’S COTTAGE
• WILLIAM WILSON
• THE TELL-TALE HEART.
• BERENICE
• ELEONORA
• NOTES TO THESE TALES
• NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM
• LIGEIA
• MORELLA
• A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS
• THE SPECTACLES
• KING PEST.
• THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK
• THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY
• LIONIZING
• X-ING A PARAGRAPH
• METZENGERSTEIN
• THE SYSTEM OF DOCTOR TARR AND PROFESSOR FETHER
• THE LITERARY LIFE OF THINGUM BOB, ESQ.
• HOW TO WRITE A BLACKWOOD ARTICLE.
• A PREDICAMENT
• DIDDLING
• THE ANGEL OF THE ODD
• MELLONTA TAUTA
• THE DUC DE L’OMELETTE.
• THE OBLONG BOX.
• LOSS OF BREATH
• THE MAN THAT WAS USED UP.
• THE BUSINESS MAN
• THE LANDSCAPE GARDEN
• MAELZEL’S CHESS-PLAYER
• THE POWER OF WORDS
• THE COLLOQUY OF MONOS AND UNA
• THE CONVERSATION OF EIROS AND CHARMION
• SHADOW—A PARABLE
• PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE.
• A TALE OF JERUSALEM
• THE SPHINX
• HOP-FROG
• THE MAN OF THE CROWD.
• NEVER BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD
• THOU ART THE MAN
• WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING
• SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY.
• THE POETIC PRINCIPLE
• OLD ENGLISH POETRY (*)
• POEMS