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Tales of Mystery and Horror - Vol. II (Assignation / Berenice / Cask of Amontillado / Descent into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / MS. Found in a Bottle / Purloined Letter / Tell-tale Heart / William Wilson)
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [21 stories, 34 poems]
The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe [15 stories, 1 poem]
The 70 Best Tales of Edgar Allan Poe [69 stories]
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales (Balloon Hoax / Descent Into the Maelstrom / How to Write a Blackwood Article / Loss of Breath / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Mystification / Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial)
Tales of Terror (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum / Tell-Tale Heart)
The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Balloon-Hoax / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Malestrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart)
The Annotated Poe [26 stories, 6 poems]
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe [68 stories, 31 poems]
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes
Tales (Black Cat / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmion / Descent Into the Maelström / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Lionizing / Man in the Crowd / Mesmeric Revelation / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Purloined Letter)
Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
Selected Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe [5 stories, 22 poems]
In the Shadow of the Master
Selected Tales
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [67 stories, 52 poems, 4 essays]
Tales of Mystery and Imagination [22 stories]
Tales of Mystery and Terror (Black Cat / Descent into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Masque of the Red Death / MS. Found in a Bottle / Oblong Box / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words With a Mummy / Sphinx / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [34 stories, 17 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe Stories [27 stories, 8 poems]
Tales of Mystery, Imagination, & Humour, and Poems [8 stories, 11 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe's Tales (Cask of Amontillado / Descent into the Maelstrom / Gold Bug / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Pit and the Pendulum)
Short Stories (Black Cat / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter)
The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Assignation / Black Cat / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Ligeia / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Sphinx / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Sea-Cursed
Poetry, Tales and Selected Essays [74 stories, 62 poems, 5 essays]
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories (35 stories)
Ten Great Mysteries [10 stories, 5 poems]
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
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