A stranger visits the isolated home of the Usher family.

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 Amo...

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

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. R...

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 prepar...

A horrible figure intrudes upon Prospero's masquerade party.

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