Tales of mystery and imagination / Edgar Allan Poe

Chapter 1. The gold bug -- Chapter 2. The balloon hoax -- Chapter 3. The facts in the case of M. Valdermar -- Chapter 4. Ms. Found in a bottle -- Chapter 5. A descent into the maelstrom -- Chapter 6. The black cat -- Chapter 7. The fall of the house of usher -- Chapter 8. The pit and the pendulum -- Chapter 9. The premature burial -- Chapter 10. The masque of the red death -- Chapter 11. The cask of amontillado -- Chapter 12. The Imp of the perverse -- Chapter 13. The island of the fay -- Chapter 14. The oval portrait -- Chapter 15. The tell-tale heart -- Chapter 16. The domain of arnheim -- Chapter 17. Landor's cottage a pendant to 'the domain of arnheim -- Chapter 18. The assignation: Venice -- Chapter 19. William Wilson -- Chapter 20. Berenice -- Chapter 21. Eleonora -- Chapter 22. Ligeia -- Chapter 23. The murders in the rue morgue -- Chapter 24. The mystery of marie roget a sequel to 'the murders in the rue morgue -- Chapter 25. The purloined letter -- Chapter 26. The colloquy of monos and una -- Chapter 27. The conversation of eiros and charmoin -- Chapter 28. A tale of the ragged mountains.

Including Poe’s most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the ultimate collection of the infamous author’s macabre works. Considered to be one of the earliest American writers to encapsulate the genre of detective-fiction, the collection features some of his most popular tales.‘The Gold-Bug’ is the only tale that was popular in his lifetime, whereas ‘The Black Cat’, ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ and ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ became more widely read after his death. Focusing on the internal conflict of individuals, the power of the dead over the living, and psychological explorations of darker human emotion that appear to anticipate Sigmund Freud’s later theories on the psyche, Poe’s Gothic terror stories are considered masterpieces the world over.