Category: Poe, Edgar Allan

William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on May 3, 2024 by Every Writer

Let me call myself, for the present, William Wilson. The fair page now lying before me need not be sullied with my real appellation. This has been already

SILENCE—A FABLE by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on April 15, 2024April 15, 2024 by Every Writer

“The mountain pinnacles slumber; valleys, crags and caves are silent.”

Never Bet the Devil Your Head by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Every Writer

“Never Bet the Devil Your Head” is a satirical short story by Edgar Allan Poe that follows the life of Toby Dammit

The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on March 23, 2024 by Every Writer

“The Purloined Letter” is a detective story by Edgar Allan Poe, featuring the clever and analytical C. Auguste Dupin. The Prefect

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on March 20, 2024March 20, 2024 by Every Writer

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could;

House of the Fall of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Every Writer

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens,

The Devil in the Belfry by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on December 28, 2023 by Every Writer

The Devil in the Belfry by Edgar Allan Poe: Everybody knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is—or, alas, was—the Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss. Yet as it lies

The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Every Writer

William Legrand, who discovers a peculiar gold-colored beetle while on Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina. Legrand is obsessed with the scarab beetle and makes drawings of it. Later, Legrand receives a scrap of parchment paper with a cryptic coded

The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on October 22, 2023 by Every Writer

The story follows an unnamed narrator who recounts how alcoholism and temperament changes led him to abuse his pets, including his favorite cat named Pluto. In a drunken rage, the narrator gouges out one of Pluto’s eyes, leading the frightened cat to avoid him.

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on January 5, 2018March 30, 2019 by Every Writer

TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them