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"MS. Found in a Bottle" is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances.
"Some Words with a Mummy" is a satirical short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science in April 1845. It is an important early portrayal of a revived Egyptian mummy.
Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, written in 1838, is the only complete novel by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe.The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaler called the Grampus.
"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" is a short-story by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). It was published in the February 1845 issue of Godey's Lady's Book and was intended as a partly humorous sequel to the celebrated collection of Middle Eastern tales One Thousand and One Nights .
Eureka: by Edgar Allan Poe at Project Gutenberg; Eureka: A Prose Poem – Full text from the 1848 edition; Eureka: A Prose Poem public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Report on Poe's Lecture on "The Universe" by John H. Hopkins, from the New York Evening Express, February 4, 1848 "The Thought of a Thought". MathPages.com.
The story appeared as "The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case" in The American Review, December, 1845, Wiley and Putnam, New York.. While editor of The Broadway Journal, Poe printed a letter from a New York physician named Dr. A. Sidney Doane that recounted a surgical operation performed while a patient was "in a magnetic sleep"; the letter served as inspiration for Poe's tale. [1] "
"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in the June 1835 issue of the monthly magazine Southern Literary Messenger as "Hans Phaall -- A Tale", intended by Poe to be a hoax. [1] The story is regarded as one of the early examples of the modern science fiction genre.