The Premature Burial
The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe. The Premature Burial THERE are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. These the
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe. The Pit and the Pendulum I WAS sick, sick unto death, with that long agony, and when they at length unbound me, and I was
The Man of the Crowd
The Man of the Crowd by Edgar Allan Poe. The Man of the Crowd It was well said of a certain German book that “er lasst sich nicht lesen”–it does not permit itself to
The Landscape Garden
The Landscape Garden by Edgar Allan Poe. The Landscape Garden No more remarkable man ever lived than my friend, the young Ellison. He was remarkable in the entire and continuous profusion of good gifts
The Business Man
The Business Man by Edgar Allan Poe. The Business Man Method is the soul of business. —OLD SAYING. I am a business man. I am a methodical man. Method is the thing, after all.
The Black Cat
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. The Black Cat FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I
The Angel of the Odd
The Angel of the Odd by Edgar Allan Poe. The Angel of the Odd It was a chilly November afternoon. I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the
Some Words with a Mummy
Some Words with a Mummy by Edgar Allan Poe. Some Words with a Mummy THE symposium of the preceding evening had been a little too much for my nerves. I had a wretched headache,
Shadow
Shadow by Edgar Allan Poe. Shadow YE who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows. For indeed strange things
Philosophy of Furniture
Philosophy of Furniture by Edgar Allan Poe. Philosophy of Furniture In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little sentiment beyond