The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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67 STORIES:
Angel of the Odd
[Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W)
Balloon-Hoax
[Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W)
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
Bon-Bon
Business Man
[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)
Devil in the Belfry
Diddling
[Domain of Arnheim](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645889W)
Duc De L'Ome1ette
[Eleonora](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14937980W)
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
Four Beasts in One
Gold-Bug
Hop-Frog
How to Write a Blackwood Article
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
[Island of the Fay](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645993W)
King Pest
[Landor's Cottage](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646005W)
Ligeia
Lionizing
Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
Loss of Breath
Man of the Crowd
Man that was Used Up
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Mellonta Tauta
[Mesmeric Revelation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646037W)
Metzengerstein
Morella
MS. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Mystery of Marie Roget
Mystification
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Oblong Box
Oval Portrait
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
Power of Words
Predicament
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibraryorg/works/OL41065W)
Shadow
[Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W)
Some Words with a Mummy
Spectacles
Sphinx
System of Dr. Tart and Prof. Fether
Tale of Jerusalem
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
Thou Art the Man
[Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646039W)
Three Sundays in a Week
Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
[Von Kempelen and His Discovery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25111544W)
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
X-ing a Paragrab
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After my American Lit class in high school, I mainly thought of Poe as an influential horror and mystery writer. (Not to mention the source of those great Corman/Vincent Price movies.) I was happily surprised to discover in this collection Poe's sense of humor.
Here's a few that caught me off guard because their entertaining absurdity:
In “Loss of Breath” the narrator loses his breath and is mistaken for dead, resulting in many misadventures.
In “Never Bet the Devil Your Head” the narrator's friend, Dammit (Yup, that's his name), keeps using the expression “I bet the devil my head....” Dammit bets he can jump a bridge. The devil shows up and you can imagine where this goes...
In “Angel of the Odd” the titular angel torments a man with improbable accidents.
In “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether” the narrator visits a mental institution to visit and finds that the lunatics literally took over the asylum.
“X-ing a Paragrab” is a tale of two newspapermen having a “war” in print with lots of wordplay using x's and o's.
I loved the stories I knew, like “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” etc. But it was nice to be surprised by some of the odd stories that I didn't know before reading this collection.
This treasure chest of Poe's poems and short stories is the kind of book you savor over time. Each time I read Poe, I am reminded of what a great writer he was. Unfortunately, I missed the book club discussion (this being our October pick) and would have loved to hear what everyone thought or different ways of looking at his writing. This is a book to buy and keep at home!
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