The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Edgar Allan Poe THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE In the consideration of the faculties and impulses—of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which, although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, irreducible sentiment, has been equally … Continue reading CHAPTER XII of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 – A0202