Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.



"Itself, by itself, solely, one everlasting, and single."



PLATO: SYMPOS.



Part 1



Morella

Lionizing

William Wilson

The Man That Was Used Up

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Duc de L'Omelette

MS. Found in a Bottle

Bon-Bon

Shadow

The Devil in the Belfry

Ligeia

King Pest

How to Write a Blackwood Article

A Predicament



Part 2



Four Beasts in One

Silence

The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall

A Tale of Jerusalem

Von Jung

Loss of Breath

Metzengerstein

Berenice

Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling

The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion



Personal Opinions



Editorial Opinions



The epithets "Grotesque" and "Arabesque" will be found to indicate with sufficient precision the prevalent tenor of the tales here published. But from the fact that, during a period of some two or three years, I have written five-and-twenty short stories whose general character may be so briefly defined, it cannot be fairly inferred at all events it is not truly inferred that I have, for this species of writing, any inordinate, or indeed any peculiar taste or prepossession. I may have written with an eye to this republication in volume form, and may, therefore, have desired to preserve, as far as a certain point, a certain unity of design. This is, indeed, the fact; and it may even happen that, in this manner, I shall never compose anything again. E. Allan Poe (Author)