Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories

Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe, known as the “Annie” Daguerreotype

Individual Edgar Allan Poe Stories

The Angel Of The Odd (1844)
The Assignation (1834)
The Balloon Hoax (1844)
Berenice (1835)
The Black Cat (1843)
Bon-Bon (1832)
The Business Man (1840)
The Cask Of Amontillado (1846)
The Colloquy Of Monos And Una (1841)
The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion (1839)
A Descent Into The Maelström (1841)
The Devil In The Belfry (1839)
Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences (1843)
The Domain Of Arnheim (1846)
The Duc De L’Omelette (1832)
Eleonora (1841)
The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar (1845) : Original publication in The American Review (December 1845), From Amazing Stories (April 1926)
The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1839)
Four Beasts in One (1833)
The Gold Bug (1842)
Hop-Frog (1849)
How To Write A Blackwood Article (1838)
The Imp Of The Perverse (1845)
The Island Of The Fay (1841)
The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)
King Pest (1835)
Landor’s Cottage (1849)
The Landscape Garden (1842)
Ligeia (1838)
The Lighthouse (1849)
Lionizing (1835)
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844)
Loss Of Breath (1832)
The Man Of The Crowd (1840)
The Man That Was Used Up (1839)
The Masque Of The Red Death (1842)
Mellonta Tauta (1849)
Mesmeric Revelation (1844)
Metzengerstein (1832)
Morella (1835)
Ms. Found in a Bottle (1833)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842)
Mystification (1837)
Never Bet The Devil Your Head (1841)
The Oblong Box (1844)
The Oval Portrait (1842)
The Pit And The Pendulum (1842)
The Power Of Words (1845)
A Predicament (1838)
The Premature Burial (1844)
The Purloined Letter (1844)
Shadow A Parable (1835)
Silence A Fable (1838)
Some Words With A Mummy (1845)
The Spectacles (1844)
The Sphinx (1846)
The System Of Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether (1844)
A Tale Of Jerusalem (1832)
A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains (1843)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Thou Art The Man (1844)
The Thousand And Second Tale Of Scheherazade (1845)
Three Sundays In A Week (1841)
Von Kempelen And His Discovery (1849)
Why The Little Frenchman Wears His Hand In A Sling (1839)
William Wilson (1839)
X-Ing A Paragraph (1849)

LANDOR’S COTTAGE by Edgar Allan Poe A Pendant to “The Domain of Arnheim” DURING A pedestrian trip last summer, through one or two of the river counties of New York, I found myself, as the day declined, somewhat embarrassed about the road I was pursuing. The land undulated very remarkably; and my path, for the […]

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VON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY by Edgar Allan Poe AFTER THE very minute and elaborate paper by Arago, to say nothing of the summary in ‘Silliman’s Journal,’ with the detailed statement just published by Lieutenant Maury, it will not be supposed, of course, that in offering a few hurried remarks in reference to Von Kempelen’s […]

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MELLONTA TAUTA by Edgar Allan Poe TO THE EDITORS OF THE LADY’S BOOK: I have the honor of sending you, for your magazine, an article which I hope you will be able to comprehend rather more distinctly than I do myself. It is a translation, by my friend, Martin Van Buren Mavis, (sometimes called the […]

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X-ING A PARAGRAPH by Edgar Allan Poe AS it is well known that the ‘wise men’ came ‘from the East,’ and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East, it follows that Mr. Bullet-head was a wise man; and if collateral proof of the matter be needed, here we have it—Mr. B. was an editor. […]

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HOP-FROG by Edgar Allan Poe I never knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking. To tell a good story of the joke kind, and to tell it well, was the surest road to his favor. Thus it happened that his seven ministers were […]

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The Lighthouse by Edgar Allan Poe Jan 1 — 1796. This day — my first on the light-house — I make this entry in my Diary, as agreed on with De Grät. As regularly as I can keep the journal, I will — but there is no telling what may happen to a man all […]

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THE SPHINX by Edgar Allan Poe DURING the dread reign of the Cholera in New York, I had accepted the invitation of a relative to spend a fortnight with him in the retirement of his cottage ornee on the banks of the Hudson. We had here around us all the ordinary means of summer amusement; […]

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THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO by Edgar Allan Poe THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be […]

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THE DOMAIN OF ARNHEIM by Edgar Allan Poe The garden like a lady fair was cut, That lay as if she slumbered in delight, And to the open skies her eyes did shut. The azure fields of Heaven were ‘sembled right In a large round, set with the flowers of light. The flowers de luce, […]

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THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR by Edgar Allan Poe OF course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. Valdemar has excited discussion. It would have been a miracle had it not-especially under the circumstances. Through the desire of all parties concerned, to […]

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THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE by Edgar Allan Poe IN THE consideration of the faculties and impulses—of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which, although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, irreducible sentiment, has been equally overlooked by all the moralists who have preceded […]

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THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE by Edgar Allan Poe Truth is stranger than fiction. OLD SAYING. HAVING had occasion, lately, in the course of some Oriental investigations, to consult the Tellmenow Isitsoornot, a work which (like the Zohar of Simeon Jochaides) is scarcely known at all, even in Europe; and which has never been quoted, […]

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