Short Stories

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor in the 19th century best known for his evocative short stories and poems that captured the interest of readers worldwide. His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story. Many of Poe’s works, including “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Raven,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” became literary classics. Some aspects of Poe’s life, like his literature, are shrouded in mystery, and the lines between fact and fiction have been blurred substantially since his death in 1849 at age 40. Index: The Black Cat The Gold-Bug Hop-Frog Shadow The Tell-Tale Heart The Devil in the Belfry The Oval Portrait The Purloined Letter The Spectacles The Angel of the Odd The Man of the Crowd The Fall of the House of Usher