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  • BON BON
    BON - BON THAT Pierre Bon - Bon was a _restaurateur_ of uncommon qualifications, no man who, during the reign of - - -, frequented the little C? f? in the cul - de - sac Le Febvre at Rouen, will, I...
    
    
  • ELEONORA
    ELEONORA I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence - -...
    
    
  • SILENCE A FABLE
    SILENCE - - A FABLE ALCMAN. The mountain pinnacles slumber; valleys, crags and caves are silent. " LISTEN to me, " said the Demon as he placed his hand upon my head. " The region of which I speak is...
    
    
  • THE ANGEL OF THE ODD AN EXTRAVAGANZA
    THE ANGEL OF THE ODD - AN EXTRAVAGANZA IT was a chilly November afternoon. I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic _truffe_ formed not the least important item, and...
    
    
  • THE BLACK CAT
    THE BLACK CAT FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject...
    
    
  • THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
    THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not...
    
    
  • THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY
    THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY EVERYBODY knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is - - or, alas, was - - the Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss. Yet as it lies some distance from any...
    
    
  • THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
    THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Son c? ur est un luth suspendu; Sit? t qu ' on le touche il r? sonne.. _ De B? ranger_. DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year,...
    
    
  • THE MAN THAT WAS USED UP A TALE OF THE LATE BUGABOO AND KICKAPOO CAMPAIGN
    THE MAN THAT WAS USED UP - A TALE OF THE LATE BUGABOO AND KICKAPOO CAMPAIGN I CANNOT just now remember when or where I first made the acquaintance of that truly fine - looking fellow, Brevet...
    
    
  • THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
    THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH THE " Red Death " had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal - - the redness and the horror of...
    
    
  • THE OBLONG BOX
    THE OBLONG BOX SOME years ago, I engaged passage from Charleston, S. C, to the city of New York, in the fine packet - ship " Independence, " Captain Hardy. We were to sail on the fifteenth of the...
    
    
  • THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
    THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM I WAS sick - - sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sentence - -...
    
    
  • THE PREMATURE BURIAL
    THE PREMATURE BURIAL THERE are certain themes of which the interest is all - absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. These the mere romanticist must...
    
    
  • THE SPHINX
    THE SPHINX DURING the dread reign of the Cholera in New York, I had accepted the invitation of a relative to spend a fortnight with him in the retirement of his _cottage ornee_ on the banks of the...
    
    
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