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Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Edgar Allan Poe

First published 1908
Publisher J. M. Dent & Sons
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages xv+527

    46 stories --Contents list viewed at HathiTrust (1938, 1968, 1979 printings)
  • Those three printings appear to be identical for the stories alone, which span pp. 3-527. There are interior differences. The 1968 title page shows Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, SBN: 460 00336 4. The 1968 and 1969 Contents list, p1-2, is annotated to indicate "the place and date of first publication (where known)".
  • The 1938 copyright page ("Made in Great Britain ... for J. M. Dent ...") reports 12 printings (quote):   First Published in this Edition, 1908   Reprinted 1909, 1910, 1912, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1921, 1925, 1928, 1931, 1938

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Page Title Author(s) Type
"Thou Art the Man" Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
A Descent Into the Maelström Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Berenice Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Bon-Bon Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Eleonora Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Hop-Frog Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Introduction (Tales of Mystery and Imagination) Padraic Colum Essay
King Pest: A Tale Containing an Allegory Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Landor's Cottage Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Ligeia Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Loss of Breath: A Tale Neither in Nor Out of "Blackwood" Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Mellonta Tauta Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Metzengerstein Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Morella Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
MS. Found in a Bottle Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Shadow: A Parable Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Silence: A Fable Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Assignation Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Balloon Hoax Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Colloquy of Monos and Una Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Devil in the Belfry Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Domain of Arnheim Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Elk Edgar Allan Poe Essay
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
The Gold Bug Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
The Imp of the Perverse Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Island of the Fay Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Man of the Crowd Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt Edgar Allan Poe Novella
The Oblong Box Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Oval Portrait Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Premature Burial Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
The Spectacles Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
The Sphinx Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
William Wilson Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
X-ing a Paragrab Edgar Allan Poe Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Tales of Mystery and Imagination Cover 1962 J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton Paperback Collection Robin Jacques xii+527
Tales of Mystery and Imagination Cover 1963 J. M. Dent & Sons Paperback Collection 1336 Robin Jacques xii+527
Tales of Mystery and Imagination Cover 1971 J. M. Dent Paperback Collection Smythe xii+527
Tales of Mystery and Imagination Cover 1977 J. M. Dent Paperback Collection xii+527