Eldritch lovers, gothic grotesques and a homicidal jester are among the characters issued from the imagination of one of the great American tale-spinners of the nineteenth century. Horror, humor and mystery intertwine in this collection of ten of Edgar Allan Poe's more esoteric short stories. The Stories: "Ligeia" was originally published in the September 18, 1838 issue of The poem "The Conqueror Worm," first published in in 1843, was added to the text of "Ligeia" in 1845. "Berenice" was originally published in the March 1835 edition of . "Morella" was originally published in the April 1835 edition of "The Assignation" was originally published as "The Visionary" in the January 1834 edition of "The Sphinx" was originally published in the January 1846 issue of "King Pest" was originally published in the September 1835 edition of "Hop-Frog" was originally published in the March 17, 1849 issue of "Shadow-A Parable" was originally published in the September 1835 edition of "Silence-A Fable" was originally published as "Siope, -A Fable" in (Baltimore, 1838). "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" was originally published in the December 1839 issue of