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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Edgar Allen Poe: A Brief Chronology | |
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| A Note on the Texts | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Tamerlane (1827) | |
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| Sonnet-To Science (1829) | |
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| [Alone] (1829) | |
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| Romance (1829) | |
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| The City in the Sea (1831) | |
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| Israfel (1831) | |
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| The Sleeper (1831) | |
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| Lenore (1831) | |
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| To Helen (1832) | |
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| Dream-Land (1844) | |
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| The Raven (1845) | |
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| A Valentine (1846) | |
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| Ulalume-A Ballad (1847) | |
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| The Bells (1848) | |
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| Annabel Lee (1849) | |
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| For Annie (1849) | |
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| Eldorado (1849) | |
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| Tales Metzengerstein (1832) | |
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| MS. Found in a Bottle (1833) | |
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| Loss of Breath (1835) | |
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| Berenice (1835) | |
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| Morella (1835) | |
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| King Pest (1835) | |
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| How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838) | |
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| A Predicament (1838) | |
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| Ligeia (1838) | |
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| Silence-A Fable (1838) | |
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| The Man That Was Used Up (1839) | |
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| The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) | |
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| William Wilson (1839) | |
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| The Man of the Crowd (1840) | |
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| Philosophy of Furniture (1840) | |
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| A Descent into the Maelstrom (1841) | |
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| The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) | |
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| The Masque of the Red Death (1842) | |
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| The Pit and the Pendulum (1842) | |
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| The Oval Portrait (1842) | |
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| The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) | |
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| The Black Cat (1843) | |
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| The Purloined Letter (1844) | |
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| "Thou Art the Man" (1844) | |
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| The Imp of the Perverse (1845) | |
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| The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) | |
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| The Cask of Amontillado (1846) | |
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| Hop-Frog (1849) | |
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| Social and Historical Contexts | |
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| Death and Bereavement From Joseph Taylor, The Dangers of Premature Burial (1816) | |
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| From Washington Irving, Biography and Poetical Remains of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson (1841) | |
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| Pseudo-Sciences and Scientific Inquiry From Sir David Brewster, Letters on Natural Magic (1832) | |
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| From J.G. Spurzheim, Phrenology; or, The Doctrine of Mental Phenomena (1833) | |
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| From Poe's Review of Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee (1836) | |
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| From Chauncey Hare Townshend, Facts in Mesmerism (1840) | |
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| Fantastic Journeys From [John Cleves Symmes, Jr.], Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery by Captain Adam Seaborn (1820) | |
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| From [Richard Adams Locke], "Great Astronomical Discoveries," New York Sun (26 and 27 August 1835) | |
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| The South and Slavery From Poe's Commentary on Lucian Minor's An Address on Education (1835) | |
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| From [Nathaniel Beverley Tucker's] Review of J.K. Paulding's Slavery in the United States and William Drayton's The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists (1836) | |
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| From Poe's Review of James Russell Lowell's A Fable for Critics (1849) | |
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| Literary ContextsThe Gothic and Its Trappings From Sophia Lee, The Recess (1783) | |
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| From William Godwin, Things As They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) | |
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| From Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland; or, The Transformation (1798) | |
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| [William Maginn], "The Man in the Bell" (1821) | |
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Prophetic Pictures" (1837) | |
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| Gallows Narratives and Urban Expos�s Charles Dickens, "A Madman's Manuscript" (1836) | |
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| Washington Irving, "An Unwritten Drama of Lord Byron" (1835) | |
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| From George Lippard, The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk-Hall (1844) | |
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| Theories of Poetry From A.W. Schlegel, "Lecture XI" (1815) | |
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| From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817) | |
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| Poe on Writers and WritingOn Poetry "Letter to B---" (1831) | |
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| "The Philosophy of Composition" (1846) | |
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| On Other Poets On Thomas Moore (1840) | |
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| On Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1842) | |
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| On Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1845) | |
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| On Frances Sargent Osgood (1846) | |
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| On the Tale From a Review of Charles Dickens's Watkins Tottle (1836) | |
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| From a Review of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Night and Morning (1841) | |
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| From a Review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales (1842) | |
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| On Magazine Editing, Reviewing, and the Literary Scene From a Review of Joseph Rodman Drake's The Culprit Fay and Fitz-Greene Halleck's Alnwick Castle (1836) | |
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| "Exordium to Critical Notices" (1842) | |
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| "Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House" (1845) | |
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| Select Bibliography | |