Part 1: Tales -- 1. Ms. Found in a Bottle (1833) -- [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) 3. Morella (1835) -- 4. Ligeia (1838) -- 5. How to Write a Blackwood Article/A Predicament (1838) -- 6. The Man That Was Used Up (1839) -- [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) 9. The Man of the Crowd (1840) -- 10. The Murders into the Rue Morgue (1841) -- [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) 15. The Gold-Bug (1843) -- [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) 19. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1844) -- 20. The Balloon-Hoax (1844) -- 21. The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844) -- 22. Some Words with a Mummy (1845) -- [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) 26. Hop-Frog (1849) -- Part 2: Poems -- 27. Sonnet-To Science -- 28. "Alone" -- 29. To Helen -- 30. Israfel -- 31. The Sleeper -- 32. The City in the Sea -- 33. The Haunted Palace -- 34. The Conqueror Worm -- 35. Dream-Land -- [Raven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41081W) 37. Ulalume-A Ballad -- 38. The Bells -- [Annabel Lee](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273456W) Part 3: Letters, Prefaces, Critical Writings -- 40. Letter to John Allan 12/22/28 [capturing their troubled relationship] -- 41. Letter to T. W. White 4/30/35 [defense of grotesque imagery in Berenice] -- 42. Letter to Maria and Virginia Clemm 8/29/35 [Poe's devotion to Virginia] -- 43. Letter to B __ [poetry is about pleasure, not truth] SLM 1836 -- 44. Letter to John P. Kennedy [tales are half-banter, half-satire] -- 45. Letter to Philip P. Cooke 9/21/39 [Poe explicates Ligeia] -- 46. Letter to Frederick Thomas (May 4 1845): [wrote The Raven for popularity] -- 47. Letter to Philip P. Cooke 8/9/46: [Poe on his tales of ratiocination] -- 48. Letter to George W. Eveleth [Poe on a flaw in The Raven] -- 49. Letter to George W. Eveleth 1/4/48 [Poe explains his drinking] -- 50. Prospectus of The Penn Magazine -- 51. Review of Edward Lytton Bulwer [Poe on plot] Graham's 1841 -- 52. Review of Longfellow [Poe criticizes didacticism] 1842 -- 53. Review of Guy Fawkes, by William Harrison Ainsworth [Poe's tomahawk] Nov 1841 -- 54. Review of Twice-Told Tales [Poe on superiority of tale to novel] Apr 1842 -- 55. From Review of Twice-Told Tales [Poe on unity of effect May 1842] -- 56. Preface to The Raven and Other Poems [poetry not a purpose, but a passion] -- 57. The Philosophy of Composition -- 58. The Poetic Principle -- 59. Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House -- Part 4: Related Literary Works -- The Confessions of Nat Turner (Thomas Gray) -- Hymn to the Night (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) -- A Psalm of Life (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) -- The Cross of Snow (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) -- The Birth Mark (Nathaniel Hawthorne) -- Wakefield (Nathaniel Hawthorne) -- Young Goodman Brown (Nathaniel Hawthorne) -- The Quaker City [excerpt](George Lippard) -- The Great Lawsuit [excerpt](Margaret Fuller) -- The Poet (Ralph Waldo Emerson) -- Unseen Spirits (Nathaniel Parker Willis) -- The Madhouse of Palermo (Nathaniel Parker Willis) -- Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking (Walt Whitman) -- 1849 Obituary of Poe (Rufus Griswold) -- I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain (Emily Dickinson) -- One Need Not Be A Chamber -- To Be Haunted (Emily Dickinson) -- After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes (Emily Dickinson) -- Part 5: Reader's Guide -- Contexts -- Style -- Contemporary Reception -- Afterlife and Influence -- Scholarship and Interpretation -- Sources for Further Study -- Index.