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October 19, 1833. " MS. Found in a Bottle " is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever southward, he writes an "MS.", or manuscript, telling of his adventures which ...
January 1843. " The Tell-Tale Heart " is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed. The victim was an old man with a filmy pale blue "vulture-eye", as ...
1845. " The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether " is a dark comedy short story by the American author Edgar Allan Poe. First published in Graham's Magazine in November 1845, the story centers on a naïve and unnamed narrator's visit to a mental asylum in the southern provinces of France.
Publication date. April 1841. " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story; [1] [2] Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination ". [1]
A Predicament. " A Predicament " is a humorous short story by Edgar Allan Poe, usually combined with its companion piece "How to Write a Blackwood Article". It was originally titled "The Scythe of Time". The paired stories parody the Gothic sensation tale, popular in England and America since the early 19th century.
Publication date. September 1838. " Ligeia " ( / laɪˈdʒiːə /) is an early short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1838. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligent raven-haired woman. She falls ill, composes "The Conqueror Worm", and quotes lines attributed to Joseph ...
The Pit and the Pendulum. " The Pit and the Pendulum " is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts.
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