MS. found in a bottle -- Berenice -- Morella -- Some passages in the life of a lion (lionizing) -- The unparalleled adventures of one Hans Pfaall -- The assignation (The visionary) -- Bon-bon -- Shadow: a parable -- Loss of breath: a tale neither in nor out of "Blackwood" -- King Pest: a tale containing an allegory -- Metzengerstein -- Le Duc De l'Omellette -- Four beats in one: the homo-cameleopard -- A tale of Jerusalem -- Mystification -- Ligeia -- How to write a Blackwood article -- A predicament: the scythe of time -- Silence: a fable -- The journal of Julius Rodman -- The devil in the belfry -- The man that was used up -- The fall of the House of Usher -- William Wilson -- The conversation of Eiros and Charmion -- Why the Little Frenchman wears the hand in a sling -- The business man -- The man in the crowd -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- A descent into the maelström -- The Island of the Fay -- The colloquy of Monos and Una -- Never bet the devil your head -- Three Sundays a week -- Eleonora -- The oval portrait -- The masque of the red death -- The mystery of Marie Rogêt -- The pit and the pendulum -- The tell-tale heart -- The gold-bug -- The black cat -- Diddling considered as one of the exact sciences -- A tale of the ragged mountains -- The spectacles -- The balloon-hoax -- Mesmeric revelation -- The premature burial -- The oblong box -- The angel of the odd -- Thou art the man the man -- The purloined letter -- The literary life of Thingum Bob, Esq.-- The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade -- Some words with a mummy -- The power of words -- The imp of the perverse -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- The system of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether -- The sphinx -- The cask of Amontillado -- The domain of Arnheim -- Mellonta Tauta -- Hop-frog -- X-ing a paragrab -- Von Kempelen and his discovery -- Landor's cottage -- The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
Summary
Contains sixty-seven tales, thirty-one poems, and one complete novel--The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.