Welcome to PoeStories.com
by Robert Giordano
Poe wrote many stories on many different topics. If you don’t know where to start, you can browse short summaries of Edgar Allan Poe stories, so you can find something that interests you. Don’t worry, I don’t give away the endings!!
This site makes it easy for you read Poe’s stories. Poe knew several languages and had quite a large vocabulary. Poe’s works are not hard to read but sometimes he uses obscure words or references that the average user may not know. Because of this, I’ve created an ever growing wordlist containing many of these words and their definitions. When a word in the wordlist appears in any story, it becomes hyperlinked to its definition.
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(1844) Comedy about being drunk“The Balloon Hoax” (1844) Newspaper story about balloon travel“Berenice” (1835) Horror story about teeth“The Black Cat” (1845) Horror story about a cat“The Cask of Amontillado” (1846) A story of revenge“A Descent Into The Maelström” (1845) Man vs. Nature, Adventure Story“Eleonora” (1850) A love story“The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839) An old house and its secrets“The Gold Bug” (1843) A search for pirate treasure“Hop-Frog” (1845) A midget seeks revenge“The Imp of the Perverse” (1850) Procrastination and confession“The Island of the Fay” (1850) A poetic discussion“Ligeia” (1838) A haunting supernatural tale“The Man of the Crowd” (1845) How to follow someone“Manuscript Found in a Bottle” (1833) Adventure at sea“The Masque of the Red Death” (1850) The horror of the plague“Mesmeric Revelation” (1849) Conversation with a hypnotized dying man“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) A detective story“Never Bet the Devil Your Head” (1850) A comedy with a moral“The Oval Portrait” (1850) A tragic love story“The Pit and the Pendulum” (1850) A torture chamber“The Premature Burial” (1850) About being buried alive“The Purloined Letter” (1845) A detective story“Silence – A Fable” (1838) A dream“Some Words With a Mummy” (1850) A mummy speaks“The Spectacles” (1850) A great little comedy about love at first sight“The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether” (1856) Inside an insane asylum“The Tell-Tale Heart” (1850) A murderer’s guilt