Tales of Mystery and Imagination

This collection gathers Edgar Allan Poe's short fiction of terror, detection, and the fantastic, written chiefly in the 1830s and 1840s. Typical pieces include the collapse of a doomed house and its last heirs, murders examined by the amateur C. Auguste Dupin, a tell-tale heart, a premature burial, a masque of plague, a descent into a maelstrom, and tales of obsession, mesmerism, and revenge. Settings shift among Gothic interiors, Paris streets, and unnamed chambers of the mind. There is no continuous novel. The volume is a reader's gathering of Poe's stories of mystery and imagination, not his criticism or poetry alone.

Bound in black buckram with pasted illustration on cover, with gilt spine titles between four raised bands. Navy-blue ribbon marker. Black slipcase.