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The writer, poet, and critic Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 and died in 1849. Eleven of Poe's short stories are discussed here. They are: “MS. Found in a Bottle,” “Ligeia,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “William Wilson,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Black Cat,” “The Purloined Letter,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” and “The Cask of Amontillado.” Elsewhere on SparkNotes, there is a separate guide for Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait."
Read one-minute Sparklet story summaries, the detailed story-by-story Summary & Analysis, or the Full Collection Summary of Poe's Short Stories.
See a complete list of the characters in Poe’s Short Stories and in-depth analyses of Roderick Usher, C. Auguste Dupin, William Wilson, and Lady Ligeia.
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