Tales of Mystery and Imagination [29 stories]

By Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: short stories, American fiction, burial vaults, shrouds, short story, plagues, gallows, fear, death, Ratiocination, Gothic fiction, unreliable narrators, Crime fiction, heroic romances, mountaineering, tuberculosis, Horror stories, Crime, nobility, premature burial, Horror tales, self-hatred, Juvenile audience, pseudoscience, daggers, Illustrated works, catalepsy, American Horror tales, Horror, Hematidrosis, hoaxes, fixation, tarns, American Short stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, first-person narrative, Children's stories, American, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Detective and mystery fiction, unconsciousness, Murder, abbeys, Hyperesthesia, Homicide, Fiction, anxiety, American fiction (fictional works by one author), silence, crypts, Children's fiction, dragons, hermitages, Hypnagogia, maces, Taphophobia, hypnotism, Mesmerism, Revenge, psychogenic death, American literature, cats, monomania, animal magnetism, knights, masquerade balls, pendulums, Juvenile fiction, embedded narrative, suspense, Spanish Inquisition, aristocracy, violence, vortex, narration, Thrillers (Fiction), whirlpools, Classic Literature, Illustrations, phobias, Horror fiction, berths, Fiction, horror, Detective and mystery stories, hysteria

Description: Tales of Mystery and Imagination, London: George Harrap and New York: Brentanos, 1919. (This famous and frequently copied collection features elaborate illustrations by Harry Clarke. The original edition comprised 24 black and white illustrations, plus front cover and spine illustration and 10 decorative tailpieces. The book was so well received that it was reissued in 1923 with 8 additional illustrations in full color. It was reprinted in New York by Tudor in 1933, 1935, 1936 and 1939. These illustrations have been reprinted numerous times, most notably in London by Chancellor Press in 1985.) [(source)](https://www.eapoe.org/works/editions/index.htm#poe) Contains: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) Bon-Bon [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) Colloquy of Monos and Una Conversation of Eiros and Charmion [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) Gold Bug King Pest [Landor's Cottage](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646005W) Ligeia Lionizing Man of the Crowd [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Metzengerstein Morella Ms. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Mystery of Marie Roget Oblong Box [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W) Spectacles [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)