1. Tales of mystery and horror. The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The mystery of Marie Roget ; The black cat ; The gold-bug ; Ligeia ; A descent into the maelstrom ; The tell-tale heart ; The purloined letter ; The assignation ; MS found in a bottle ; William Wilson ; Berenice ; The fall of the house of Usher ; The cask of Amontillado ; The pit and the pendulum ; A tale of the ragged mountains ; The man of the crowd ; Morella ; "Thou art the man" ; The oblong box ; The conversation of Eiros and Charmion ; Metzengerstein ; The masque of the Red Death ; The premature burial ; The imp of the perverse ; The facts in the case of M. Valdemar ; Hop-Frog -- 2. Humor and satire. The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether ; The literary life of Thingum Bob, Esq. ; How to write a Blackwood article ; A predicament ; Mystification ; Loss of breath ; The man that was used up ; Diddling ; The angel of the odd ; Mellonta Tauta ; The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade ; X-ing a paragrab ; The business man ; A tale of Jerusalem ; The sphinx ; Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling ; Bon-bon ; The Duc De L'Omelette ; Three Sundays in a week ; The devil in the belfry ; Lionizing ; Some words with a mummy ; The spectacles ; Four beasts in one ; Never bet the devil your head -- 3. Flights and fantasies. The Balloon-hoax ; Mesmeric revelation ; Eleonora ; The unparalleled adventure of one Hans Pfaall ; King pest ; The Island of the Fay ; The oval portrait ; The Domain of Arnheim ; Landor's cottage ; The power of words ; The colloquy of Monos and Una ; Shadow : a parable ; Silence : a fable ; Von Kempelen and his discovery -- 4. The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket -- 5. The poems. Annabel Lee ; To my mother ; Hymn ; A Valentine ; Fairy-land ; To Helen ; Isafel ; The city in the sea ; The sleeper ; Lenore ; The valley of unrest ; The Coliseum ; Sonnet to Zante ; Bridal ballad to __ __ ; Sonnet-silence ; Dream-land ; Eulalie : a song ; To F_ ; To F___S S. O___D ; The raven ; To M.L. S___ ; Ulalume ; To __ __ ; To Helen ; An enigma ; For Annie ; The bells ; Eldorado ; A dream within a dream ; Stanzas ; A dream ; "The happiest day, the happiest hour" ; The Lake : To ___ ; Sonnet : to science ; Al Aaraaf ; Romance ; To ___ ; To the river ___ ; To ___ ; Tamerlane ; To__ __ ; Dreams ; Spirits of the dead ; Evening star ; Elizabeth ; Serenade ; Imitation ; Hymn to Aristogetion and Harmodius ; Scenes from "Politian" ; A paean ; To Isadore ; Alone ; To one in paradise ; The haunted palace ; The conqueror worm -- Edgar Allan Poe : a biographical note.