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Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) has 11 books in the BigBookHub catalogue: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2, The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1, The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of…, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket: Comprisi… and 6 more. These titles date from between 1838 and 1846.
Books by Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
Poe's collected works showcase a master craftsman who invented psychological horror, turning the human mind itself into a landscape of terror, guilt, and obsession. These stories burrow into the darkest corners of consciousness with a precision that still unsettles readers today.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
Poe's collected works constitute a masterclass in psychological terror and structural precision, proving that the grotesque and beautiful are separated by the thinnest of lines.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes
Poe's masterworks of psychological terror and melancholic beauty reach their apex in this comprehensive collection, where his obsessive exploration of death, loss, and the darker corners of the human mind created the blueprint for modern horror. The Raven and his lesser-known tales showcase a writer who weaponized language itself—transforming rhythm and repetition into instruments of dread that still unsettle readers today.
The Fall of the House of Usher
Poe's atmospheric masterpiece decays alongside its haunted mansion, where a family's buried secrets emerge through sound, decay, and mounting psychological torment until reality itself fractures. The story achieves terror not through jump scares but through the slow realization that sanity is fragile.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket: Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827.
Poe's only novel descends into psychological and physical chaos aboard a doomed ship, blending maritime horror with philosophical dread as his protagonist confronts mutiny, cannibalism, and mysteries that defy rational explanation.
The Masque of the Red Death
When plague ravages the kingdom, a prince seals his court behind impenetrable walls, believing luxury and isolation can ward off death itself—until a masked figure arrives to prove that some terrors cannot be locked away. Poe distills pure dread into a novella that uses a single, relentless symbol to explore how we construct dangerous illusions of safety.
The Cask of Amontillado
Poe compresses a lifetime of betrayal, vengeance, and madness into a journey through Italian catacombs, where every detail—from wine to stone to silence—becomes a weapon of psychological terror.
The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Including Essays on Poetry
A collection of Poe's poems, edited by John H. Ingram, including some previously unprinted pieces and essays on poetry. A preface discusses Poe's life, and the poems that follow include "The Raven" and "The Bells."
The Raven
A poem in narrative form, published in January 1845. On a December night, a grieving student mourning Lenore is visited by a raven that says only "Nevermore," and his questions to it lead from curiosity toward despair.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5
The fifth volume of Edgar Allan Poe's works, likely gathered in the mid-19th century, with essays, short stories and poems. It opens with "Philosophy of Furniture," which discusses home decor and how cultural background shapes taste.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
The fourth volume of Poe's works, a mix of short stories and essays. It includes "The Devil in the Belfry," a satire of a Dutch town obsessed with clocks and cabbages, until a strange little man disrupts its order.