Tales of Mystery and Imagination

An artist's obsessive quest for perfection is literally life-consuming.

Gentleman suffering from monomania has a secret and very bizarre obsession involving his new wife.

A wife-murderer falls foul of a cat.

Ligeia was a larger-than-life personality. And perhaps she's larger than death, too.

Montresor is not as fond of Fortunato as the latter believes, and when he invited Fortunato to taste some special Amontillado sherry down in the cellar, he has a hidden agenda.

A dying Mr. Valdemar agrees to a hypnotist's experiment. Just before Valdemar's death, he will be placed in a state of hypnosis.

A murderer is haunted by the sound of his victim's heart, still somehow beating.

An unnamed narrator marries Morella, a philosophy scholar, who spends most of her time in bed reading and teaching. Realizing her deterioration, her husband becomes frightened and wishes for his wife's death and eternal peace.

The pendulum swings ever lower into the pit, at whose base a man is bound and immobilized; and its blade is razor-sharp.

Outside, the terrible disease called the Red Death is ravaging the countryside; but inside the Prince Prospero prepares an elaborate masquerade party.

A horrible figure intrudes upon Prospero's masquerade party.

This short biography of Poe commences with his marriage to child bride Virginia.