Creative, sensitive, mercurial - if these words describe the elements of true genius, then Edgar Allan Poe was its tortured personification. Unsurpassed in the artufl fusion of the weird and macabre with the poetic and romantic and in the creation of the incisive, colorful image... Poe's singular talents remain unchallenged. Which was Poe primarily - story writer or poet? The duality of his art is well exemplified by such memorable tales as the foreboding Fall of the House of Usher, the coolly logical Purloined Letter. And who has not been moved by the somber beauty of his poem The Raven, the simplicity and purity of his paean to Helen? The stories and poems selecgted for this volume give a true picture of Poe's artistry and genius. TALES THE TELL-TALE HEART THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO THE BLACK CAT THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE . THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET THE PURLOINED LETTER THE GOLD BUG THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM POEMS THE RAVEN LENORE ULALUME THE BELLS ANNABEL LEE THE HAUNTED PALACE THE CONQUEROR WORM THE VALLEY OF UNREST THE CITY IN THE SEA THE SLEEPER EULALIE ELDORADO ISRAFEL FOR ANNIE To HELEN To ONE IN PARADISE THE HAPPIEST DAY .