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• Introduction (Poe's Tales: Selected for Use in Schools) • essay by M. A. Eaton
• The Gold Bug • non-genre • (1880) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Gold-Bug 1843)
• The Purloined Letter • non-genre • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1844) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Eleonora • (1841) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 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)
• The Mask of the Red Death • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• Shadow—A Parable • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Shadow: A Fable 1835)
• William Wilson • (1850) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of William Wilson: A Tale 1839)
• Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Notes (Poe's Tales: Selected for Use in Schools) • essay by M. A. Eaton