Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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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)](https://www.eapoe.org/works/editions/index.htm#poe)
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[Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W)
[Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W)
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
Bon-Bon
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
Colloquy of Monos and Una
Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
Gold Bug
King Pest
[Landor's Cottage](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646005W)
Ligeia
Lionizing
Man of the Crowd
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Metzengerstein
Morella
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Mystery of Marie Roget
Oblong Box
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
[Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W)
Spectacles
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
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“And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave. The thought came gently and stealthily, and it seemed long before it attained full appreciation; but just as my spirit came at length properly to feel and entertain it, the figures of the judges vanished, as if magically, from before me; the tall candles sank into nothingness; their flames went out utterly; the blackness of darkness supervened; all sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad rushing descent as of the soul into Hades. Then silence, and stillnes, and the night were the universe.” (From “The Pit and the Pendulum”)
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