Edgar Allan Poe bibliography
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The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) include many poems, short stories, and one novel. His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing.
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Poetry
Title | Date | First published in | Notes
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|---|---|---|---|
| "Poetry" | 1824 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | <ref>Edgar Allan Poe — 'Poetry'" at Edgar Allan Poe Society online</ref> |
| "O, Tempora! O, Mores!" | 1825 | Never published during Poe's lifetime | Not authenticated as by Poe<ref>Hubbell, Jay B. "'O, Tempora! O, Mores!' A Juvenile Poem by Edgar Allan Poe", Studies in the Humanities. University of Colorado Studies. Series B, vol. 2, no. 4. p. 314-321</ref> |
| "Tamerlane" | July 1827 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | <ref name=Sova233>Sova, 233</ref> |
| "Song" | July 1827 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | <ref name=Sova271/> |
| "Imitation" | July 1827 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | <ref name=Sova271/> |
| "A Dream" | July 1827 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | <ref name=Sova271/> |
| "The Lake" | July 1827 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | <ref name=Sova233/> |
| "Spirits of the Dead" | July 1827 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | <ref name=Sova233/> |
| "Evening Star" | July 1827 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | <ref name=Sova233/> |
| "Dreams" | July 1827 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | |
| "Stanzas" | July 1827 | Tamerlane and Other Poems | <ref>Foye, 22–23</ref> |
| "The Happiest Day" | September 15, 1827 | The North American | <ref name=Sova271/> |
| "To Margaret" | circa 1827 | Never published during Poe's lifetime | |
| "Alone" | 1829 | Never published during Poe's lifetime | <ref>Sova, 8</ref> |
| "To Isaac Lea" | circa 1829 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | |
| "To The River ——" | 1829 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | <ref name=Sova240/> |
| "To ——" | 1829 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | Begins "The bowers whereat, in dreams..."<ref name=Sova238>Sova, 238</ref> |
| "To ——" | 1829 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | Begins "Should my early life seem..."<ref name=Sova238/> |
| "Romance" | 1829 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | <ref name=Sova271>Sova, 271</ref> |
| "Fairy-Land" | 1829 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | <ref name=Sova271/> |
| "To Science" | 1829 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | <ref name=Sova225>Sova, 225</ref> |
| "Al Aaraaf" | 1829 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems | <ref name=Sova271/> |
| "An Acrostic" | 1829 | Never published during Poe's lifetime | <ref name=Sova271/> |
| "Elizabeth" | 1829 | Never published during Poe's lifetime | <ref name=Sova239/> |
| "To Helen" | 1831 | Poems by Edgar A. Poe | <ref name=Sova239/> |
| "A Paean" | 1831 | Poems by Edgar A. Poe | <ref name=Sova194/> |
| "The Sleeper" | 1831 | Poems by Edgar A. Poe | <ref name=Sova194/> |
| "The City in the Sea" | 1831 | Poems by Edgar A. Poe | <ref name=Sova194>Sova, 194</ref> |
| "The Valley of Unrest" | 1831 | Poems by Edgar A. Poe | <ref name=Sova194/> |
| "Israfel" | 1831 | Poems by Edgar A. Poe | <ref name=Sova194/> |
| "Enigma" | February 2, 1833 | Baltimore Saturday Visiter | |
| "Fanny" | May 18, 1833 | Baltimore Saturday Visiter | |
| "The Coliseum" | October 26, 1833 | Baltimore Saturday Visiter | |
| "Serenade" | April 20, 1833 | Baltimore Saturday Visiter | |
| "To One in Paradise" | January 1834 | Godey's Lady's Book | <ref name=Sova240>Sova, 240</ref> |
| "Hymn" | April 1835 | Southern Literary Messenger | <ref name=Quinn208/> |
| "To Elizabeth" | September 1835 | Southern Literary Messenger | Republished as "To F——s S. O——d" in 1845<ref name=Sova239/> |
| "May Queen Ode" | circa 1836 | Never published in Poe's lifetime | |
| "Spiritual Song" | 1836 | Never published during Poe's lifetime | |
| "Latin Hymn" | March 1836 | Southern Literary Messenger | |
| "Bridal Ballad" | January 1837 | Southern Literary Messenger | Originally published as "Ballad"<ref>Sova, 34</ref> |
| "To Zante" | January 1837 | Southern Literary Messenger | <ref name=Sova225/> |
| "The Haunted Palace" | April 1839 | American Museum | <ref>Silverman, 138</ref> |
| "Silence–A Sonnet" | January 4, 1840 | Saturday Courier | <ref>Sova, 220</ref> |
| "Lines on Joe Locke" | February 28, 1843 | Saturday Museum | |
| "The Conqueror Worm" | January 1843 | Graham's Magazine | <ref name=Sova282>Sova, 282</ref> |
| "Lenore" | February 1843 | The Pioneer | <ref>Silverman, 201</ref> |
| "A Campaign Song" | 1844 | Never published during Poe's lifetime | |
| "Dream-Land" | June 1844 | Graham's Magazine | <ref name=Sova282/> |
| "Impromptu. To Kate Carol" | April 26, 1845 | Broadway Journal | |
| "To F——" | April 1845 | Broadway Journal | Republished as "To Frances" in the September 6, 1845, issue of the Broadway Journal<ref name=Sova239/> |
| "Eulalie" | July 1845 | American Review: A Whig Journal | <ref>Quinn, 480</ref> |
| "Epigram for Wall Street" | January 23, 1845 | Evening Mirror | |
| "The Raven" | January 29, 1845 | Evening Mirror | <ref>Hoffman, 79</ref> |
| "The Divine Right of Kings" | October 1845 | Graham's Magazine | |
| "A Valentine" | February 21, 1846 | Evening Mirror | Originally published as "To Her Whose Name Is Written Below"<ref>Sova, 249</ref> |
| "Beloved Physician" | 1847 | Never published during Poe's lifetime | Incomplete<ref>Meyers, 207</ref> |
| "Deep in Earth" | 1847 | Never published during Poe's lifetime | Incomplete<ref>Foye, 29</ref> |
| "To M. L. S—— (1847)" | March 13, 1847 | The Home Journal | <ref name=Sova239>Sova, 239</ref> |
| "Ulalume" | December 1847 | American Whig Review | <ref name=Sova285/> |
| "Lines on Ale" | 1848 | Never published during Poe's lifetime | <ref>Foye, 30</ref> |
| "To Marie Louise" | March 1848 | Columbian Magazine | <ref name=Sova219>Sova, 219</ref> |
| "An Enigma" | March 1848 | Union Magazine of Literature and Art | <ref name=Sova285/> |
| "To Helen" | November 1848 | Sartain's Union Magazine | <ref name=Sova239/> |
| "A Dream Within A Dream" | March 31, 1849 | The Flag of Our Union | <ref name=Sova285>Sova, 285</ref> |
| "Eldorado" | April 21, 1849 | Flag of Our Union | <ref>Quinn, 605</ref> |
| "For Annie" | April 28, 1849 | Flag of Our Union | <ref name=Sova285/> |
| "To My Mother" | July 7, 1849 | Flag of Our Union | <ref name=Sova240/> |
| "Annabel Lee" | October 9, 1849 | New York Daily Tribune | Sold before Poe's death but published posthumously<ref>Meyers, 244</ref> |
| "The Bells" | November 1849 | Sartain's Union Magazine | Sold before Poe's death but published posthumously<ref name=Sova285/> |
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Tales
Title | Publication date | First published in | Genre | Notes
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| "Metzengerstein" | January 14, 1832 | Philadelphia Saturday Courier | Horror / Satire | First published anonymously with the subtitle "A Tale in Imitation of the German"<ref name=Silverman88/> |
| "The Duc De L'Omelette" | March 3, 1832 | Philadelphia Saturday Courier | Humor | Originally "The Duke of l'Omelette"<ref>Sova, 73</ref> |
| "A Tale of Jerusalem" | June 9, 1832 | Philadelphia Saturday Courier | Humor | <ref name=Quinn192>Quinn, 192</ref> |
| "Loss of Breath" | November 10, 1832 | Philadelphia Saturday Courier | Humor | Originally "A Decided Loss"<ref name=Quinn192/> |
| "Bon-Bon" | December 1, 1832 | Philadelphia Saturday Courier | Humor | Originally "The Bargain Lost"<ref name=Quinn192/> |
| "MS. Found in a Bottle" | October 19, 1833 | Baltimore Saturday Visiter | Adventure | <ref>Sova, 162</ref> |
| "The Assignation" | January 1834 | Godey's Lady's Book | Horror | Originally "The Visionary", published anonymously<ref>Silverman, 93</ref> |
| "Berenice" | March 1835 | Southern Literary Messenger | Horror | <ref name=Quinn208>Quinn, 208</ref> |
| "Morella" | April 1835 | Southern Literary Messenger | Horror | <ref name=Quinn208/> |
| "Lionizing" | May 1835 | Southern Literary Messenger | Satire | Subtitle: "A Tale"<ref name=Quinn208/> |
| "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" | June 1835 | Southern Literary Messenger | Adventure | <ref name=Quinn208/> |
| "King Pest" | September 1835 | Southern Literary Messenger | Horror / Humor | Originally "King Pest the First", published anonymously<ref name=Quinn230>Quinn, 230</ref> |
| "Shadow - A Parable" | September 1835 | Southern Literary Messenger | Horror | Published anonymously<ref name=Quinn230/> |
| "Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard" | March 1836 | Southern Literary Messenger | Humor | Originally "Epimanes"<ref>Sova, 90</ref> |
| "Mystification" | June 1837 | American Monthly Magazine | Humor | Originally "Von Jung, the Mystific"<ref name="Sova, 165">Sova, 165</ref> |
| "Silence - A Fable" | 1838 | Baltimore Book | Humor | Originally "Siope - A Fable"<ref name=Sova219/> |
| "Ligeia" | September 1838 | Baltimore American Museum | Horror | Republished in the February 15, 1845 issue of the New York World, included the poem "The Conqueror Worm" as words written by Ligeia on her death-bed<ref>Sova, 134</ref> |
| "How to Write a Blackwood Article" | November 1838 | Baltimore American Museum | Parody | An introduction to "A Predicament"<ref name=Sova200>Sova, 200</ref> |
| "A Predicament" | November 1838 | Baltimore American Museum | Parody | Companion to "How to Write A Blackwood Article," originally "The Scythe of Time"<ref name=Sova200/> |
| "The Devil in the Belfry" | May 18, 1839 | Saturday Chronicle and Mirror of the Times | Humor / Satire | <ref>Sova, 68</ref> |
| "The Man That Was Used Up" | August 1839 | Burton's Gentleman's Magazine | Satire | <ref>Quinn, 283</ref> |
| "The Fall of the House of Usher" | September 1839 | Burton's Gentleman's Magazine | Horror | <ref>Quinn, 284</ref> |
| "William Wilson" | October 1839 | The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1840 | Horror | <ref name=Sova279>Sova, 279</ref> |
| "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" | December 1839 | Burton's Gentleman's Magazine | Science fiction | <ref name=Sova279/> |
| "Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling" | 1840 | Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque | Humor | <ref name=Sova280>Sova, 280</ref> |
| "The Business Man" | February 1840 | Burton's Gentleman's Magazine | Humor | Originally "Peter Pendulum" <ref name=Sova279/> |
| "The Man of the Crowd" | December 1840 | Graham's Magazine | Horror | <ref>Quinn, 309</ref> |
| "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" | April 1841 | Graham's Magazine | Detective fiction | <ref name="Meyers, 123"/> |
| "A Descent into the Maelström" | April 1841 | Graham's Magazine | Adventure | <ref name=Sova280/> |
| "The Island of the Fay" | June 1841 | Graham's Magazine | Fantasy | <ref name=Sova280/> |
| "The Colloquy of Monos and Una" | August 1841 | Graham's Magazine | Science fiction | <ref>Sova, 54</ref> |
| "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" | September 1841 | Graham's Magazine | Satire | Subtitled "A Tale with a Moral"<ref>Quin, 325</ref> |
| "Eleonora" | Fall 1841 | The Gift for 1842 | Romance | <ref>Quinn, 328–329</ref> |
| "Three Sundays in a Week" | November 27, 1841 | Saturday Evening Post | Humor | Originally "A Succession of Sundays"<ref>Quinn, 330</ref> |
| "The Oval Portrait" | April 1842 | Graham's Magazine | Horror | Originally "Life in Death"<ref>Quinn, 330–331</ref> |
| "The Masque of the Red Death" | May 1842 | Graham's Magazine | Horror | Originally "The Mask of the Red Death"<ref>Quinn, 331</ref> |
| "The Landscape Garden" | October 1842 | Snowden's Ladies' Companion | Sketch | Later incorporated into "The Domain of Arnheim"<ref>Sova, 129</ref> |
| "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" | November 1842, December 1842, February 1843 (serialized)<ref name="Sova, 165"/> | Snowden's Ladies' Companion | Detective fiction | Originally subtitled "A Sequel to 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'"<ref>Meyers, 134</ref> |
| "The Pit and the Pendulum" | 1842–1843 | The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present | Horror | <ref>Sova, 188</ref> |
| "The Tell-Tale Heart" | January 1843 | The Pioneer | Horror | <ref>Meyers, 137</ref> |
| "The Gold-Bug" | June 1843 | Dollar Newspaper | Adventure | <ref>Meyers, 135–136</ref> |
| "The Black Cat" | August 19, 1843 | United States Saturday Post | Horror | <ref>Sova, 28</ref> |
| "Diddling" | October 14, 1843 | Philadelphia Saturday Courier | Parody | Originally "Raising the Wind; or, Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences"<ref name=Sova79>Sova, 79</ref> |
| "The Spectacles" | March 27, 1844 | Dollar Newspaper | Humor | <ref name=Quinn400>Quinn, 400</ref> |
| "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" | April 1844 | Godey's Lady's Book | Science fiction, Adventure | <ref name=Quinn400/> |
| "The Premature Burial" | July 31, 1844 | Dollar Newspaper | Horror | <ref>Quinn, 418</ref> |
| "Mesmeric Revelation" | August 1844 | Columbian Magazine | Science fiction | <ref>Sova, 154</ref> |
| "The Oblong Box" | September 1844 | Godey's Lady's Book | Horror | <ref name=Quinn422>Quinn, 422</ref> |
| "The Angel of the Odd" | October 1844 | Columbian Magazine | Humor | Subtitled "An Extravaganza"<ref>Sova, 11</ref> |
| "Thou Art the Man" | November 1844 | Godey's Lady's Book | Detective fiction / Satire | <ref name=Quinn422/> |
| "The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq." | December 1844 | Southern Literary Messenger | Humor | <ref name=Quinn422/> |
| "The Purloined Letter" | 1844–1845 | The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present | Detective fiction | <ref>Sova, 204</ref> |
| "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" | February 1845 | Godey's Lady's Book | Humor | Meant as a sequel to One Thousand and One Nights<ref>Sova, 237</ref> |
| "Some Words with a Mummy" | April 1845 | American Review: A Whig Journal | Satire | <ref>Silverman, 294</ref> |
| "The Power of Words" | June 1845 | Democratic Review | Science fiction | <ref>Sova, 199</ref> |
| "The Imp of the Perverse" | July 1845 | Graham's Magazine | Horror | <ref>Silverman, 263</ref> |
| "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" | November 1845 | Graham's Magazine | Humor | <ref>Quinn, 469</ref> |
| "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" | December 1845 | The American Review | Horror / Science fiction / Hoax | Originally "The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case"<ref>Quinn, 470</ref> |
| "The Sphinx" | January 1846 | Arthur's Ladies Magazine | Satire | <ref>Quinn, 499</ref> |
| "The Cask of Amontillado" | November 1846 | Godey's Lady's Book | Horror | <ref>Meyers, 201</ref> |
| "The Domain of Arnheim" | March 1847 | Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine | Sketch | Expansion of previous story "The Landscape Garden"<ref>Sova, 71</ref> |
| "Mellonta Tauta" | February 1849 | Flag of Our Union | Science fiction / Hoax | <ref>Meyers, 241</ref> |
| "Hop-Frog" | March 17, 1849 | Flag of Our Union | Horror | Subtitled "Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs"<ref name=Sova285>Sova, 285</ref> |
| "Von Kempelen and His Discovery" | April 14, 1849 | Flag of Our Union | Hoax | <ref name=Sova285/> |
| "X-ing a Paragrab" | May 12, 1849 | Flag of Our Union | Humor | <ref>Sova, 261</ref> |
| "Landor's Cottage" | June 9, 1849 | Flag of Our Union | Sketch | Originally "Landor's Cottage: A Pendant to 'The Domain of Arnheim'"<ref>Sova, 128</ref> |
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Other works
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Essays
- "Maelzel's Chess Player" (April 1836 – Southern Literary Messenger)<ref>Sova, 276</ref>
- "The Philosophy of Furniture" (May 1840 – Burton's Gentleman's Magazine)<ref>Sova, 186</ref>
- "A Few Words on Secret Writing" (July 1841 – Graham's Magazine)<ref>Rosenheim, Shawn James. The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. ISBN 9780801853326. p. 19</ref>
- "Morning on the Wissahiccon" (1844 – The Opal)<ref name=Sova79/>
- "The Balloon-Hoax" (April 13, 1844) — A newspaper article that was actually a journalistic hoax<ref>Quinn, 410</ref>
- "The Philosophy of Composition" (April 1846 – Graham's Magazine)<ref name=Sova285/>
- "Eureka: A Prose Poem" (March 1848 – Wiley & Putnam)<ref>Sova, 82</ref>
- "The Rationale of Verse" (October 1848 – Southern Literary Messenger)<ref>Silverman, 395</ref>
- "The Poetic Principle" (December 1848 – Southern Literary Messenger)<ref name=Sova285/>
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Novels
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (First two installments, January/February 1837 – Southern Literary Messenger, issued as complete novel in July 1838)<ref>Meyers, 95-96</ref>
- The Journal of Julius Rodman (First six installments, January–June 1840 – Burton's Gentleman's Magazine) — Incomplete<ref>Sova, 119</ref>
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Plays
- Politian (Two installments, December 1835–January 1836 – Southern Literary Messenger) — Incomplete
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Other
- The Conchologist's First Book (1839) — A textbook on sea shells to which Poe lent his name as author, though he did not write it<ref name=Sova200/>
- The Light-House (1849, never published in Poe's lifetime) — An incomplete work which may have been intended to be a short story or a novel
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Collections
Please note that this list of collections refers only to those printed during Poe's lifetime with his permission. Modern anthologies are not included.
- Tamerlane and Other Poems (credited by "a Bostonian") (1827)<ref name=Sova271/>
- Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1829)<ref name=Sova271/>
- Poems (1831, printed as "second edition")<ref>Silverman, 68</ref>
- Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (December 1839)<ref>Silverman, 153</ref>
- The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe (1843)<ref>Ostram, John Ward. "Poe's Literary Labors and Rewards" in Myths and Reality: The Mysterious Mr. Poe. Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1987. p. 40</ref>
- Tales (1845, Wiley & Putnam)<ref>Sova, 232</ref>
- The Raven and Other Poems (1845, Wiley & Putnam)<ref>Silverman, 299</ref>
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