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The Bargain Lost (1831)
Loss of Breath (1850) A Tale Neither In Or Out Of “Blackwood”
A Dream (1831)
The Duc de L’Omelette (1831)
Metzengerstein (1832)
A Tale of Jerusalem (1831)
The Assignation (1834)
Four Beasts in One (1833)
Manuscript Found in a Bottle (1833)
Shadow – A Parable (1835)
Silence – A Fable (1838)
Berenice (1835)
Bon-Bon (1835)
King Pest (1835)
Morella (1835)
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaal (1835)
Mystification (1837)
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1837)
How to Write a Blackwood Article (1850)
A Predicament
Ligeia (1838)
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839)
The Devil in the Belfry (1839)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
The Man That Was Used Up (1839) A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign
William Wilson (1839)
The Journal of Julius Rodman (1839–1840) Being an Account of the First Passage Across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized Man
The Business Man (1840)
Lionizing (1850)
The Man of the Crowd (1840)
The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841)
A Descent into the Maelström (1841)
Eleonora (1841)
The Island of the Fay (1841)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841) A Tale with a Moral
Three Sundays in a Week (1841)
The Black Cat (1842)
The Domain of Arnheim (1842)
The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
The Oval Portrait (1842)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1842)
Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences (1843)
The Gold-Bug (1843)
The Angel of the Odd ― An Extravaganza(1844)
The Balloon-Hoax (1844)
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844)
Mesmeric Revelation (1844)
The Oblong Box (1844)
The Premature Burial (1844)
The Purloined Letter (1844)
Some Words with a Mummy (1844)
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1844)
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)
The Spectacles (1844)
Thou Art the Man (1844)
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1844)
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845)
The Imp of the Perverse (1845)
The Power of Words (1845)
The Sphinx (1845)
The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
Landor’s Cottage (1850) A Pendant To “The Domain Of Arnheim”
Mellonta Tauta (1850)
Hop-Frog Or The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs (1850)
Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849)
X-ing a Paragrab (1849)
The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842–1843) A Sequel to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.”
THE MOST notorious ill-fortune must in the end yield to the untiring courage of philosophy – as the most stubborn city to the ceaseless vigilance of an enemy. Shalmanezer, as we have it in holy writings, lay three years before Samaria; yet it fell. Sardanapalus – see Diodorus – maintained himself seven in Nineveh; but to no purpose. Troy expired at the close of the second lustrum; and Azoth, as Aristaeus declares upon his honour as a gentleman, opened at last her gates to Psammetichus, after having barred them for the fifth part of a century….
“Thou wretch! – thou vixen! – thou shrew!” said I to my wife on the morning after our wedding; “thou witch! – thou hag! – thou whippersnapper – thou sink of iniquity! – thou fiery-faced quintessence of all that is abominable! – thou – thou-” here standing upon tiptoe, seizing her by the throat, and placing my mouth close to her ear, I was preparing to launch forth a new and more decided epithet of opprobrium, which should not fail, if ejaculated, to convince her of her insignificance, when to my extreme horror and astonishment I discovered that I had lost my breath.
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