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Tales of Mystery & Imagination

Edgar Allan Poe

First published 1941
Publisher The Limited Editions Club
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages xxiii+476

    29 stories (originally published with 16 aquatints by William Sharp)
  • Only 21 of these stories are in the 29-story 1923 collection (illus. Harry Clarke). Do not merge them.

    #125 in the Limited Editions Club bibliography and "Complete Checklist"; signed by William Sharp (see Publisher record)
  • Data from WorldCat (below) and Rachel Davis Fine Arts (auction house, evidently redundant).
  • WorldCat lists the 29 stories in sequence as below and reports (quote) -- "Limited ed. of 1,500 copies, signed by the illustrator." -- "Issued in slipcase." -- 16 leaves of plates, 28 cm -- "16 aquatints by William Sharp and a preface by Vincent Starrett"
  • Library of Congress (LCCN, below) gives all those data from WorldCat, except the list of Contents, for "Copy no. 1, in slipcase, acquired as part of an archival set from the publisher in 2008."

Page Title Author(s) Type
|0.2 Preface (Tales of Mystery & Imagination) Vincent Starrett Essay
|1 A Descent Into the Maelstrom Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|10 Eleonora Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|11 William Wilson Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
|12 Berenice Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|13 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|14 Metzengerstein Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|15 Ligeia Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|16 Shadow: A Parable Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|17 Silence: A Fable Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|18 The Oblong Box Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|19 The Mystery of Marie Roget Edgar Allan Poe Novella
|2 The Assignation Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|20 The Premature Burial Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|21 The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|22 The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|23 The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
|24 The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|25 A Predicament Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|26 The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|27 Morella Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|28 The Devil in the Belfry Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|29 The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
|3 The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|4 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
|5 The Gold-Bug Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
|6 The Oval Portrait Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|7 The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|8 MS. Found in a Bottle Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
|9 Hop-Frog Edgar Allan Poe Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Tales of Mystery & Imagination 1958 Heritage Press Hardcover Collection xix+366
Tales of Mystery & Imagination Cover 1975 The Easton Press Hardcover Collection xx+366