Alone | Edgar Allan Poe
Some argue that “Alone” offers the best glimpse into the poet’s life, while others say it is a poem for dealing with times when the bad outweights the good.
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Annabel Lee | Edgar Allan Poe
A well known poem, it was Poe’s last completed before his death, and explores the love and death of a beautiful woman, similar to many of his works.
The Coliseum | Edgar Allan Poe
The speaker contemplates the rise and fall of Rome amid the fallen grandeur of the Coliseum in this classic poem by E.A. Poe
The Bells | Edgar Allan Poe
Growing steadily darker in tone, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells” is a poem that begs interpretation along Poe’s classic themes of mania, madness and dream.
The City And The Sea | Edgar Allan Poe
First published as ‘The Doomed City’ in 1831 and later as ‘The City of Sin’, it tells the story of a city ruled by Death itself.
The Sleeper | Edgar Allan Poe
Love transcends death in this mystical, supernatural poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe
Among Poe’s most well known works, The Raven is lyrical and supernatural, chronicling a distraught lover’s descent into madness after a strange visitor.
Bridal Ballad | Edgar Allan Poe
A young woman rationalizes her choice to marry a wealthy man after her beloved is killed in war.
The Conqueror Worm | Edgar Allan Poe
The cycle of life and is a play where actors chase at phantoms. To paraphrase Shakespeare, the worm is the final conqueror of man.
The Valley Of Unrest | Edgar Allan Poe
A short poem about the restless spirits of soldiers. Poe displays his talent for constructing imaginary landscapes in The Valley Of Unrest.
Edgar Allan Poe Poems
We’re updating this list throughout September. Stay tuned for all of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems in one place.
Short Story About Suicide | Excuses by Sebastian Melbourne
With Pyschological Horror as the theme for this week’s award we are guaranteed some deep and creepy short stories. We begin with Sebastian Melbourne’s ‘EXCUSES’. Melbourne doesn’t pull and punches with this quickfire short story about suicide that begins like […]
The Cask Of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO by Edgar Allan Poe(1846)
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
THE BLACK CAT by Edgar Allan Poe (1843) FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where […]
Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (1839) Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu’on le touche il résonne. De Béranger.