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EDGAR ALLAN Poe THIRTY-Two STORIES EDGAR ALLAN PoE THIRTY-Two STORIES Edited, with Introductions and Notes, by STUART LEVINE AND SUSAN F. LEVINE Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Indianapolis/Cambridge • CoNTENTS Introduction vii A Note on the Texts xii pyright © 2000 by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Acknowledgments xii Metzengerstein I The Due De L'Omelette 9 rights reserved MS. Found in a Bottle 16 nted in the United States of America The Assignation 26 OS 04 03 02 01 00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Shadow 42 Silence 48 · further infonnation, please address Ligeia 54 -fackett Publishing Company, Inc. How to Write a Blackwood Article 68 ,, 0. Box 44937 A Predicament 80 ndianapolis, Indiana 46244-0937 The Fall of the House of Usher if .. 1(,'( 87 • ~ TVWW.hackettpublishing.com 0 William Wilson -~e M~J .. lv~o ttf,Y." ? ~ ~ f"'> 104 11 The Man of the Crowd 120 ver design by Brian Rak and John Pershing The Murders in the Rue Morgue, 130 mor design by Meera Dash and Abigail Coyle A Descent into the Maelstrom 159 mposition by Agnew's, Inc. Eleonora 174 •rary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Masque of the Red Death 181 The Pit and the Pendulum , 188 !, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. The Domain of Arnheim 200 Thirty-two stories I Edgar Allan Poe ; edited, with introductions and notes by Stuart The Tell-Tale Heart . 216 Jevine and Susan F. Levine. p. em. The Gold-Bug 221 Includes bibliographical references (p. ). The Black Cat ~ 248 ISBN 0-87220-498-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)- ISBN 0-87220-499-5 (cloth : alk. paper) The Purloined Letter 256 l. Detective and mystery stories, American. 2. Fantasy fiction, American. 3. Horror The Balloon-Hoax ales, American. I. Title: 32 stories. II. Levine, Stuart. III. Levine, Susan. IV. Title. 272 ,S2612 .A3 2000 The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 284 ll3'.3-dc21 99-048766 Some Words with a Mummy 303 The Power of Words 318 The Imp of the Perverse 323 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 329 The Cask of Amontillado 339 1 ! paper used in this publication meets the minimum standard requirements of American Mellonta Tauta 346 tional Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Hop-Frog 361 terials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Von Kempelen and His Discovery 370 @) Bibliography 379 Till· I'Arr or· 1111' Jloi!SI· or- 11\III·R , X'l 1 11 XX I~IKiAR i\r rAN l'or I . ' \ 0 0 f' I 0 0 ' I "h"l t• )._!{~ I::..,· The Boston Notion, September 5, 1840 or per haps to annr r ate rts capacrty or sorrow u rmpressron; and, actrng upou this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tam2 :Jt Tales, 1845 ! lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down-but with a shudder even '1 Rufus Griswold, ed., The Prose Writers of America, 184 7 ; See also note 9. more thrilling than before-upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows. Nevertheless, in this mansion of gloom I now proposed to myself a sojourn o some weeks. Its proprietor, Roderick Usher, had been one of my boon companions in boyhood; but many years had elapsed since our last meeting. A letter, however, liJ had lately reached me in a distant part of the country-a letter from him-which, in its wildly importunate nature, had admitted of no other than a personal reply. The MS. gave evidence of nervous agitation. The writer spoke ofacute boqily THE FALL OF THE HousE oF UsHER 1Hness..-of a mental disorder which oppressed him-and of an eam~e to see me, as his best, and indeed his only personal friend, with a view of attempting, Son caur est un luth suspendu; by the cheerfulness of my society, some alleviation of his malady. It was the Sitot qu 'on le touche il resonne. manner in which all this, and much more, was said-it was the apparent heart that De Beranger. r went with his request-which allowed me no room for hesitation; and I accord­ ingly obeyed forthwith what I still considered a very singular summons. During the whole of a dull, dark, 4_md soundless day in the autumn of the year, Although, as boys, we had been even intimate associates, yet I really knew little when the clouds hung oppressively row in the heavens, I had been passing alone, of my friend. His reserve had been always excessive and habitual. I was aware, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found however, that his very ancient family had been noted, time out of mind, for a myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy peculiar sensibility of temperament, displaying itself, through long ages, in many House of Usher. I know not how it was-but, with the first glimpse of the works of exalted art, and manifested, of late, in repeated deeds of munificent yet building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for unobtrusive charity, as well as in a passionate devotion to the intricacies, perhaps the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, senti­ even more than to the orthodox and easily recognizable beauties, of musical ment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the science. I had learned, too, the very remarkable fact, th9e stem ..of.the Usher desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me-upon the mere house, and race, all time-honored as it was, had put forth, at no period, any en~cli; the simple landscape features of the domain-upon the bleak walls-upon the in otlier wOfds;_~~ilyJay in the Q!!ect line of descent, an~d vacant eye-like windows-upon a few rank sedges-and upon a few white trunks always, with ~ery_trifling and ve!Y temporary variation, so lain. It was th_!! of decayed trees-with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no ciency, f considered, while running ovefrnfMugtif the perfect keeping of the earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon character of the premises with the accredited character of the people, and while opium-the bitter lapse into every-day life-the hideous dropping off of the veil. speculating upon the possible influence which the one, in the long lapse of There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart-an unredeemed dreari­ centuries, might have exercised upon the other-it was this deficiency, perhaps of ness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of collateral issue, and the consequent undeviating transmission, from sire to son, of the sublime. What was it-I paused to think ~hat was it that so unnerved me in the patrimony with the name, which had, at length, so identified the two as to the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could merge the original title of the estate in the quaint and equivocal appellation of the I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was "House ofUsher"-an ~llation which seemed to include, in the minds of the forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, peasantry who used it, both the family and the family mansion. there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment-that of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond looking down within the tam-had been to deepen the first singular impression. our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my super­ particulars of the scene, of the details ofthe picture, would be sufficient to modify, stition-for why should I not so term it?-served mainly to accelerate the in­ crease itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments 1 His heart is a pendant Jute having terror as a basis. And it might have been for this reason only, that, when I Which resounds the moment touched. again uplifted my eyes to the house itself, from its image in the pool, there grew in Pierre-Jean de Beranger ( J780-J857), among the best-known and respected poets of the 2 ••• the veU: See our headnote. tarn: Mountain Jake. oeriod. now considered minor. 1 know not. .l my mind a strange fancy-a fancy so ridiculous, indeed, that I but mention it to trepidation and passed on. The valet now threw open a door and ushered me into show the vivid force of the sensations which oppressed me. I had so worked upon the presence of his master. my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain The room in which I found myself was very large and lofty. The windows were there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity­ long, narrow, and pointed, and at so vast a distance from the black oaken floor as an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked to be altogether inaccessible from within. Feeble gleams of encrimsoned light up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tam-a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued.
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