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Ms. Found In A Bottle
Qui n’a plus qu’un moment a vivre N’a plus rien a dissimuler. —Quinault—Atys. Of my country and of my family I have little to say. Ill usag…
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The Oval Portrait
The château into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass…
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A Descent Into The Maelstrom - (1)
The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, pr…
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A Descent Into The Maelstrom - (2)
“For some moments we were completely deluged, as I say, and all this time I held my breath, and clung to the bolt. When I could stand it no…
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Mesmeric Revelation
Whatever doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Of these latter, thos…
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The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar
Of course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. Valdemar has excited discussion. It w…
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The Black Cat
For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect…
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher - (1)
Son cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu’on le touche il résonne.. —De Béranger. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the…
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher - (2)
IV. And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fair palace door, Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing, And sparkling evermore, A t…
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Silence—A Fable
“The mountain pinnacles slumber; valleys, crags and caves are silent.” “Listen to me,” said the Demon as he placed his hand upon my head. “…
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The Masque Of The Red Death
The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the…
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The Cask Of Amontillado
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know th…
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The Imp Of The Perverse
In the consideration of the faculties and impulses—of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a…
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The Assignation - (1)
Stay for me there! I will not fail. To meet thee in that hollow vale. (Exequy on the death of his wife, by Henry King, Bishop of Chichester…
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The Assignation - (2)
“Ha! ha! ha!—ha! ha! ha!”—laughed the proprietor, motioning me to a seat as I entered the room, and throwing himself back at full-length up…
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The Pit And The Pendulum - (1)
Impia tortorum longos hic turba furores Sanguinis innocui, non satiata, aluit. Sospite nunc patria, fracto nunc funeris antro, Mors ubi dir…
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The Pit And The Pendulum - (2)
All this I saw indistinctly and by much effort—for my personal condition had been greatly changed during slumber. I now lay upon my back, a…
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The Premature Burial - (1)
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction…
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The Premature Burial - (2)
My own case differed in no important particular from those mentioned in medical books. Sometimes, without any apparent cause, I sank, littl…
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The Tell-Tale Heart
True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not…
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Berenice
Dicebant mihi sodales, si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquar tulum fore levatas.—Ebn Zaiat. Misery is manifold. The wretchedne…
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Eleonora
Sub conservatione formæ specificæ salva anima. —Raymond Lully. I am come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have…
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Ligeia
An hour thus elapsed when (could it be possible?) I was a second time aware of some vague sound issuing from the region of the bed. I liste…
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Morella
Itself, by itself, solely, one everlasting, and single. —PLATO—Sympos. With a feeling of deep yet most singular affection I regarded my fri…
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King Pest - (1)
A Tale Containing an Allegory. The gods do bear and will allow in kings The things which they abhor in rascal routes. —Buckhurst’s Tragedy…
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King Pest - (2)
Over against her, and upon the left of the dropsical lady, was seated a little puffy, wheezing, and gouty old man, whose cheeks reposed upo…
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Metzengerstein
Pestis eram vivus—moriens tua mors ero. —Martin Luther Horror and fatality have been stalking abroad in all ages. Why then give a date to t…
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Shadow—A Parable
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the Shadow. —Psalm of David. Ye who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have lo…
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Hop-Frog
When the two little friends obeyed the summons of the king they found him sitting at his wine with the seven members of his cabinet council…
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Silence
There are some qualities—some incorporate things, That have a double life, which thus is made A type of that twin entity which springs From…