King Pest The First – A Tale Containing An Allegory The Gods do bear and well allow in kingsThe things which they abhor in rascal routes. –Buckhurst’s Tragedy of Ferrex...
The Island Of The Fay Science, true daughter of old Time thou art,Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes!Why prey’st thou thus upon the poet’s heart,Vulture, whose wings are...
Hear “A Dream” Read Aloud. A Dream In visions of the dark nightI have dream’d of joy departed —But a waking dream of life and lightHath left me broken...
The Poe Museum has received a transformative gift of nearly sixty treasured Edgar Allan Poe artifacts in honor of the museum’s 100 year anniversary. This collection of items, including personal...
The Imp Of The Perverse In the consideration of the faculties and impulses — of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which...
The Unparalleled Adventure OF One Hans Pfaall With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander, With a burning spear and a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander...
The following story includes an offensive depiction of a character named Jupiter. Poe’s characterization of the formerly enslaved man reflects racist minstrel stereotypes. The Gold-Bug...
Epimanes Chacun a ses vertus. Crebillon’s Xerxes Antiochus Epiphanes is very generally looked upon as the Gog of the prophet Ezekiel. This honour is however more properly attributable to...
