Never Bet the Devil Your Head

Never Bet the Devil Your Head A Tale with a Moral “Con tal que las costumbres de un autor,” says Don Thomas de las Torres, in the preface to his “Amatory […]

Mystification

Mystification Slid, if these be your “passados” and “montantes,” I’ll have none o’ them. Ned Knowles The Baron Ritzner Von Jung was of a noble Hungarian family, every member of which […]

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt A Sequel to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Es giebt eine Reihe idealischer Begebenheiten, die der Wirklichkeit parallel lauft. Selten fallen sie zusammen. Menschen […]

The Assignation

The Assignation Stay for me there! I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale. [Exequy on the death of his wife, by Henry King, Bishop of Chichester.] […]

MS. Found in a Bottle

MS. Found In a Bottle A wet sheet and a flowing sea. CUNNINGHAM Of my country and of my family I have little to say. Ill usage and length of […]

Metzengerstein

Metzengerstein “Pestis eram vivus, moriens tua mors ero.” MARTIN LUTHER. Horror and fatality have been stalking abroad in all ages. Why then give a date to the story I have to tell? […]

Mesmeric Revelation

Mesmeric Revelation Whatever doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Of these latter, those who doubt are your mere doubters by profession — an unprofitable and […]

Mellonta Tauta

Mellonta Tauta TO THE EDITORS OF THE LADY’S BOOK: — I have the honor of sending you, for your magazine, an article which I hope you will be able to comprehend rather more distinctly than I […]

The Man of the Crowd

The Man of the Crowd Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir etre seul. La Bruyere IT was well said of a certain German book that “er lasst sich nicht lesen” — […]

The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.

The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. I am now growing in years, and — since I understand that Shakspeare and Mr. Emmons are deceased — it is not impossible […]

Lionizing

Lion-izing. A Tale. “—————— all people wentUpon their ten toes in wild wonderment.” Bishop Hall’s Satires I am — that is to say, I was, a great man. But I am […]

The Oval Portrait

The Oval Portrait The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open […]