Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• On Poe's Tales • essay by Steven Frye
• Biography of Edgar Allan Poe • essay by Charles E. May
• The Paris Review Perspective (The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe: Critical Insights) • essay by Nathaniel Rich
• A Debt Owed, a Debt Paid? Poe's Literary Cultural Heritage • essay by Jeff Grieneisen and Courtney Ruffner
• Introduction to Poe Criticism • essay by Suan Amper
• "Hypocrite Lecteur": The Reader as Accomplice in Poe's Short Stories • essay by Matthew J. Bolton
• Edgar Allan Poe's Fantastic Short Stories • essay by Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan
• Irresistible Impulses: Edgar Allan Poe and the Insanity Defense • essay by John Clemen
• The Limits of Reason: Poe's Deluded Detectives • essay by J. Gerald Kennedy
• What Happens in "The Fall of the House of Usher"? • essay by J. O. Bailey
• Poe and the Powers of the Mind • essay by Robert Shulman
• The Motive for Murder in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe • essay by Elena V. Baraban
• The Problem of Realism in "The Gold Bug" • essay by J. Woodrow Hassell, Jr.
• The Self-Consuming Narrator in Poe's "Ligeia" and "Usher" • essay by Ronald Bieganowski
• Poe's Re-Vision: The Recovery of the Second Story • essay by Cynthia S. Jordan
• Absolute Poe: His System of Transcendental Racism • essay by Maurice S. Lee