Ten Stranger Tales: By Edgar Allan Poe

Eldritch lovers gothic grotesques and a homicidal jester are among the characters issued from the imagination of one of the great American tale-spinners of the nineteenth century. Horror humor and mystery intertwine in this collection of ten of Edgar Allan Poes more esoteric short stories. The Stories: Ligeia was originally published in the September 18 1838 issue of American Museum. The poem The Conqueror Worm first published in Grahams Magazine in 1843 was added to the text of Ligeia in 1845. Berenice was originally published in the March 1835 edition of Southern Literary Messenger.. Morella was originally published in the April 1835 edition of Southern Literary Messenger. The Assignation was originally published as The Visionary in the January 1834 edition of Ladys Book. The Sphinx was originally published in the January 1846 issue of Arthurs Ladies Magazine. King Pest was originally published in the September 1835 edition of Southern Literary Messenger.. Hop-Frog was originally published in the March 17 1849 issue of The Flag of Our Union. Shadow-A Parable was originally published in the September 1835 edition of Southern Literary Messenger. Silence-A Fable was originally published as Siope -A Fable in The Baltimore Book-A Christmas and New-Years Present (Baltimore 1838). The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion was originally published in the December 1839 issue of Burtons Gentlemans Magazine.