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Tales of Mystery and Imagination [29 stories]

  • Edgar Allan Poe

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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

Genres

  • short stories
  • aristocracy
  • American Horror tales
  • American literature
  • Children's fiction
  • Classic Literature
  • Crime
  • Crime fiction
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Fiction
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About the author

  • Edgar Allan Poe

    19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849

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Editions

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    Mystic Press

    Aug 04, 1987

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    Arcturus Publishing Limited

    Sep 15, 2014

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    Arcturus Publishing Limited

    Nov 01, 2019

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    Tudor

    1936

  • 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, horror
  • American Detective and mystery stories
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    Calla Editions

    Sep 25, 2008

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    Tudor Publishing Co.

    1933

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    Portland House Illustrated Classics

    1987

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    Oxford University press, Easton Press; Collector's Edition

    1972

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    G. G. Harrup, Brentano's

    1923?

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    Flame Tree Publishing

    2020

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    Oxford University Press

    1964

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    3rd Edition edition

    Random House Value Publishing

    August 31, 1988

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    Oxford University Press

    December 1902

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    Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at the Garamond Press

    1941

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    H. Milford, Oxford university press

    1928

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    Minerva Press

    1971

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    Southern Living Gallery

    1982

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    Avenel Books, Distributed by Crown Publishers

    1985

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    Galley Press

    1987

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    O'Mara

    1987

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    Brentano

    1931

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    Franklin Library

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    Ladori

    1997

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    G.G. Harrap

    1935

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    GeorgeG. Harrap

    1919

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    Michael O'Mara Books