Publication: Some Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Publication: Some Tales of Mystery and ImaginationPublication Record # 280814
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Date: 1944-07-00
Catalog ID: 477
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price:
-/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: vii+186
Format:
pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
Type: COLLECTION
Notes: Stated 2nd printing. No price given. Price from 'Penguin First editions' site.

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

v • Introduction (Some Tales of Mystery and Imagination) • (1938) • essay by uncredited
9 • The Gold-Bug • non-genre • (1843) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
42 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
59 • The Assignation • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Visionary 1834)
70 • The Oval Portrait • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
73 • The Masque of the Red Death • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death 1842)
78 • The Cask of Amontillado • [Fortunato] • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
84 • The Pit and the Pendulum • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
98 • Hop-Frog • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Hop-Frog; or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs 1849)
107 • A Descent Into the Maelstrom • (1852) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of
A Descent Into the Maelström^?A Descent Into the Maelstrom
A Descent Into the Maelstroem
1841)
122 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
130 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
135 • The Oblong Box • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
146 • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1841) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
178 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe

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