Introduction
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life
Poe’s Literary Output
Poe and Transcendentalism
Poe’s Science Fictions
Detective Fictions and the Theory of Ratiocination
Poe and the Gothic Tradition
Poe and the Victorian Cult of Death
Poe’s Theory of Composition and Critical Praxis
Critical Reception of Poe’s Work
Tales
1. The Purloined Letter
2. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
3. The Tell-Tale Heart
4. The Cask of Amontillado
5. The Fall of the House of Usher
6. The Black Cat
7. The Masque of the Red Death
8. The Pit and the Pendulum
9. The Imp of the Perverse
10. The Oval Portrait
11. A Descent into the Maelstrom
Critical Writings
1. Letter to Mr. B—
2. Twice-Told Tales: A Review
3. The Philosophy of Composition
4. The Poetic Principle
Notes and Annotations
Critical Essays
Pregnant Women and Envious Men in “Morella,” “Berenice,” “Ligeia,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Dawn Keetley
The Permanence of Poe
James M. Hutchisson
Selected Bibliograph