Tales of mystery & imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
- 1 Rating
- 30 Want to read
- 0 Currently reading
- 3 Have read
Tales of Mystery and Imagination, London: George Harrap and New York: Brentanos, 1919. (This famous and frequently copied collection features elaborate illustrations by Harry Clarke. The original edition comprised 24 black and white illustrations, plus front cover and spine illustration and 10 decorative tailpieces. The book was so well received that it was reissued in 1923 with 8 additional illustrations in full color. It was reprinted in New York by Tudor in 1933, 1935, 1936 and 1939. These illustrations have been reprinted numerous times, most notably in London by Chancellor Press in 1985.) (source)
Contains:
Assignation
Berenice
Black Cat
Bon-Bon
Cask of Amontillado
Colloquy of Monos and Una
Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Descent into the Maelstrom
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Fall of the House of Usher
Gold Bug
King Pest
Landor's Cottage
Ligeia
Lionizing
Man of the Crowd
Masque of the Red Death
Metzengerstein
Morella
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Mystery of Marie Roget
Oblong Box
Pit and the Pendulum
Premature Burial
Silence — A Fable
Spectacles
Tell-tale Heart
William Wilson
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Subjects
short stories, aristocracy, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, silence, premature burial, catalepsy, Taphophobia, crypts, phobias, unconsciousness, berths, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Mesmerism, suspense, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation, Detective and mystery fiction, Illustrated works, Thrillers (Fiction), Illustrations, death, violence, anxiety, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Children's stories, American, Fiction, horrorPeople
William Wilson, Demon, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Mr. Landor, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Ernest Valdemar, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Egaeus, Berenice, Jonas Danilssønn RamusPlaces
Lofoten, Norway, New York, Toledo, Libya, Hebrides, Rome, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of OxfordTimes
CarnivalShowing 3 featured editions. View all 26 editions?
| Edition | Availability |
|---|---|
1
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
|
cccc
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
|
bbbb
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Published in
London
Edition Notes
"First published 1935."
Plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?
History
- Created September 17, 2008
- 8 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
| December 28, 2022 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
| December 28, 2022 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
| September 5, 2021 | Edited by Lisa | Moved edition to primary work. |
| September 4, 2021 | Edited by Lisa | Moved edition to primary work. |
| September 17, 2008 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from University of Toronto MARC record. |