← All books
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy on Amazon
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) Contains: Assignation Berenice Black Cat Bon-Bon Cask of Amontillado Colloquy of Monos and Una Conversation of Eiros and Charmion Descent into the Maelstrom Facts in the Case of M.…
Recommended by
"Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the title given to the Edgar Allan Poe collection. It’s not quite his complete short stories and it doesn’t include his poetry. But it does have The Fall of the House of Usher , The Black Cat, The Premature Burial and many of his other greats. And these stories still have a strong hook. Poe was a really interesting writer in that he managed to affect a kind of carelessness. There was a sort of feeling of dementia and frothing insanity and a stream of consciousness. But, actually, I think his works are extraordinarily well thought through, because he was a poet as well. He could think of things with really elaborate metres and internal rhymes. He’s great to read aloud. It’s no wonder that when he couldn’t get money writing he could go round getting personal appearances reading his work. Even today there’s many a Halloween gathering where people dress up as Poe and read his works out. Get the weekly Five Books newsletter"