Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination

by Edgar Allan Poe

TALES OF
MYSTERY AND
IMAGINATION

 

 

Illustrated by
ARTHUR RACKHAM

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By Robert Browning With Four Plates in Colour and Illustrations in Line. Demy 8vo.

It grew louder—louder—louder! And still the men chatted
pleasantly, and smiled.
[See page 21]

Tales of
Mystery &
Imagination
By Edgar Allan Poe

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

London
George•G.•Harrap•&•Co Ltd

 

First published 1935
by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
182 High Holborn, London, W.C.

Copyright. All rights reserved.

 

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Made in Great Britain. Text and black-and-white illustrations printed by Western Printing Services,
Ltd., Bristol; colour plates by McLagan and Cumming, Edinburgh

CONTENTS

	PAGE
The Imp of the Perverse	11
The Tell-Tale Heart	17
A Descent into the Maelstrom	22
The Cask of Amontillado	36
The Premature Burial	42
Hop-Frog	54
The Assignation	62
King Pest	73
The Pit and the Pendulum	84
The Masque of the Red Death	97
The Man of the Crowd	103
The Fall of the House of Usher	111
The Oval Portrait	127
The Gold Bug	130
Ligeia	160
Eleonora	173
Berenice	178
Morella	185
MS. Found in a Bottle	190
William Wilson	199
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar	216
Metzengerstein	224
The Murders in the Rue Morgue	232
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt	261
The Purloined Letter	303

ILLUSTRATIONS

IN COLOUR

	page
It grew louder— louder—louder! And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled (page 21) Frontispiece
The wall was now nearly upon a level with my breast. Unsheathing my rapier, I began to grope with it about the recess	40
Tripetta advanced to the monarch’s seat, and, falling on her knees before him, implored him to spare her friend	54
The victorious Legs rushed out with her into the street, followed by the redoubtable Hugh Tarpaulin	82
At length for my seared and writhing body there was no longer an inch of foothold on the firm floor of the prison	94
The Masqueraders	98
I at length found myself within view of the melancholy House of Usher	112
“He turned suddenly to regard his beloved:—She was dead!”	128
She came and departed as a shadow	162
About this valley roamed I with Eleonora	174
Their grey hairs streamed terribly in the tempest	192
The young Metzengerstein seemed riveted to the saddle of that colossal horse	226

IN LINE

1.	I walked vigorously—faster—still faster—at length I ran	14
2.	A Descent into the Maelstrom	34
3.	“I drink,” he said, “to the buried that repose around us.” “And I to your long life”	38
4.	In their sad and solemn slumbers with the worm	40
5.	In less than half a minute the whole eight were blazing fiercely	56
6.	The eight corpses swung in their chains, a fetid, blackened, hideous, and indistinguishable mass	60
7.	A thousand flambeaux flashing from the Ducal Palace turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day	64
8.	The sentence—the dread sentence of death—was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears	84
9.	Down—still unceasingly—still inevitably down! I gasped and struggled at each vibration. I shrunk convulsively at its every sweep	92
10.	There was a sharp cry—and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterward, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero	100
11.	He may have thought it expedient to remove all participants in his secret	158
12.	“These are the full, and the black, and the wild eyes—of my lost love—of the lady—of the Lady Ligeia”	170
13.	With a velocity like the headlong dashing of a cataract	196
14.	“You have conquered, and I yield. Yet henceforward art thou also dead—dead to the World, to Heaven, and to hope!”	214
15.	The distinct colossal figure of—a horse	230
16.	Eight or ten of the neighbours entered, accompanied by two gendarmes	238
17.	The sight of blood inflamed its anger into frenzy	258

TALES OF
MYSTERY AND
IMAGINATION