Edgar Allan Poe
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CHAPTER XII of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 – A0202
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
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CHAPTER XI of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 – A0202
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Edgar Allan Poe 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 suppose, however, that I gave utterance
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CHAPTER X of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 – A0202
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Edgar Allan Poe 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 blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden