The Purloined Letter, and Other Tales

The House of Usher, the Maelstrom and the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785501895744
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

The purloined letter, hidden by not being hidden; the descent into the maelstrom; the fall of the house of Usher, the black cat, the tell-tale heart, the pit and the pendulum, the cask of Amontillado, the masque of the red death, and William Wilson, who meets his double. Poe worked as a magazine editor and knew exactly how long a story could be before a reader put the paper down; every one of these is built to be read at a sitting. In the title story Dupin solves the case by thinking about how the other man thinks. Its 57 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• The Purloined Letter
• The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade
• A Descent Into the Maelstrom
• 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. A Pendant to “The Domain of Arnheim”
• William Wilson
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• Berenice
• Eleonora
• Notes — Scheherazade
• Notes—Island of the Fay
• About the Author