Special List: Edgar Allen Poe Stories

Special List: Edgar Allan Poe Stories

This is a list of all of the stories that were written by Edgar Allen Poe.

This is in order of publication.

Title	Have	Date	First published in	Genre	Notes	Source
Poetry		1824	Never published in Poe's lifetime	Poetry		Source
O, Tempora! O, Mores!		1825	Never published in Poe's lifetime	Poetry	Not authenticated, attribution to Poe is likely incorrect	Source
Tamerlane	W5	July 1827	Tamerlane and Other Poems	Poetry
Song	W5	July 1827	Tamerlane and Other Poems	Poetry
Imitation	W5	July 1827	Tamerlane and Other Poems	Poetry
A Dream	W5	July 1827	Tamerlane and Other Poems	Poetry
The Lake	W5	July 1827	Tamerlane and Other Poems	Poetry	The Lake - to - ?
Spirits of the Dead	W5	July 1827	Tamerlane and Other Poems	Poetry
Evening Star	W5	July 1827	Tamerlane and Other Poems	Poetry
Dreams	W5	July 1827	Tamerlane and Other Poems	Poetry
Stanzas	W5	July 1827	Tamerlane and Other Poems	Poetry	"In Youth I Have Known One"
The Happiest Day	W5	September 15, 1827	The North American	Poetry
Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius		1827		Poetry		Source
To Margaret		circa 1827	Never published in Poe's lifetime	Poetry		Source
Alone	W5	1829	Never published in Poe's lifetime	Poetry	Doubtful poem
To Isadore	W5	?		Poetry	Doubtful poem
The Village Street	W5	?		Poetry	Doubtful poem
The Forest Reverie	W5	?		Poetry	Doubtful poem
To Isaac Lea		circa 1829	Never published in Poe's lifetime	Poetry		Source
To The River ——	W5	1829	Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems	Poetry
To ——	W5	1829	Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems	Poetry	Begins "The bowers whereat, in dreams..."
To ——	W5	1829	Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems	Poetry	Begins "Should my early life seem..."
Romance	W5	1829	Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems	Poetry
Fairy-Land	W5	1829	Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems	Poetry
To Science	W5	1829	Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems	Poetry
Al Aaraaf	W5	1829	Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems	Poetry
An Acrostic		1829	Never published in Poe's lifetime	Poetry
Elizabeth		1829	Never published in Poe's lifetime	Poetry		Source
Letter to Mr B -	W5	1931	Letter	Poetry
To Helen	W5	1831	Poems by Edgar A. Poe	Poetry
A Paean		1831	Poems by Edgar A. Poe	Poetry		Source
The Sleeper	W5	1831	Poems by Edgar A. Poe	Poetry
The City in the Sea	W5	1831	Poems by Edgar A. Poe	Poetry
The Valley of Unrest	W5	1831	Poems by Edgar A. Poe	Poetry
Israfel	W5	1831	Poems by Edgar A. Poe	Poetry
Metzengerstein	W4	January 14, 1832	Philadelphia Saturday Courier	Horror / Satire	First published anonymously with the subtitle "A Tale in Imitation of the German"
The Duc de L'Omelette	W4	March 3, 1832	Philadelphia Saturday Courier	Humor	Originally "The Duke of l'Omelette"
A Tale of Jerusalem	W5	June 9, 1832	Philadelphia Saturday Courier	Humor
Loss of Breath	W4	November 10, 1832	Philadelphia Saturday Courier	Humor	Originally "A Decided Loss"
Bon-Bon		December 1, 1832	Philadelphia Saturday Courier	Humor	Originally "The Bargain Lost"
Enigma		February 2, 1833	Baltimore Saturday Visiter	Poetry		Source
Fanny		May 18, 1833	Baltimore Saturday Visiter	Poetry		Source
MS. Found in a Bottle	W1	October 19, 1833	Baltimore Saturday Visiter	Adventure		Source epubbooks.com
The Coliseum	W5	October 26, 1833	Baltimore Saturday Visiter	Poetry
Serenade		April 20, 1833	Baltimore Saturday Visiter	Poetry		Source
To One in Paradise	W5	January 1834	Godey's Lady's Book	Poetry
The Assignation	W2	January 1834	Godey's Lady's Book	Horror	Originally "The Visionary", published anonymously
Berenice	W2	March 1835	Southern Literary Messenger	Horror
Morella	W3	April 1835	Southern Literary Messenger	Horror
Hymn	W5	April 1835	Southern Literary Messenger	Poetry
Lionizing	W4	May 1835	Southern Literary Messenger	Satire	Subtitle: "A Tale"
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall	W1	June 1835	Southern Literary Messenger	Adventure		Source epubbooks.com
King Pest.	W3	September 1835	Southern Literary Messenger	Horror / Humor	Originally "King Pest the First", published anonymously
Shadow	W4	September 1835	Southern Literary Messenger	Horror	Published anonymously
To Elizabeth		September 1835	Southern Literary Messenger	Poetry	Republished as "To F——s S. O——d" (Frances Osgood?) in 1845	Source
Politian	W5	Dec 1835-Jan 1836	Southern Literary Messenger	Play	Incomplete
May Queen Ode		circa 1836	Never published in Poe's lifetime	Poetry
Spiritual Song		1836	Never published in Poe's lifetime	Poetry		Source
Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard	W1	March 1836	Southern Literary Messenger	Humor	Originally "Epimanes"	Source epubbooks.com
Latin Hymn		March 1836	Southern Literary Messenger	Poetry
Maelzel's Chess Player	W4	April 1836	Southern Literary Messenger	Essay
Bridal Ballad		January 1837	Southern Literary Messenger	Poetry	Originally published as "Ballad"	Source
To Zante	W5	January 1837	Southern Literary Messenger	Poetry
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	W3	January/February 1837	Southern Literary Messenger		Issued as novel Jul 1838
Mystification	W4	June 1837	American Monthly Magazine	Humor	Originally "Von Jung, the Mystific"
Silence	W2	1838	Baltimore Book	Horror / Fantasy	Originally "Siope—A Fable"
Ligeia	W3	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
How to Write a Blackwood Article	W4	November 1838	Baltimore American Museum	Parody	An introduction to "A Predicament"
A Predicament	W4	November 1838	Baltimore American Museum	Parody	Companion to "How to Write a Blackwood Article," originally "The Scythe of Time"
The Haunted Palace	W5	April 1839	American Museum	Poetry
The Devil in the Belfry	W4	May 18, 1839	Saturday Chronicle and Mirror of the Times	Humor / Satire
The Man That Was Used Up	W4	August 1839	Burton's Gentleman's Magazine	Satire
The Fall of the House of Usher	W2	September 1839	Burton's Gentleman's Magazine	Horror
William Wilson	W2	October 1839	The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1840	Horror
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion	W4	December 1839	Burton's Gentleman's Magazine	Science fiction
Silence	W5	January 4, 1840	Saturday Courier	Poetry
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling	W5	1840	Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque	Humor
The Business Man	W4	February 1840	Burton's Gentleman's Magazine	Humor	Originally "Peter Pendulum"
The Philosophy of Furniture	W5	May 1840	Burton's Gentleman's Magazine	Essay
The Man of the Crowd	W5	December 1840	Graham's Magazine	Horror
The Murders in the Rue Morgue	W1	April 1841	Graham's Magazine	Detective fiction		Source epubbooks.com
A Descent into the Maelström	W2	April 1841	Graham's Magazine	Adventure
The Island of the Fay	W2	June 1841	Graham's Magazine	Fantasy
A Few Words on Secret Writing		July 1841	Graham's Magazine	Essay
The Colloquy of Monos and Una	W4	August 1841	Graham's Magazine	Science fiction
Never Bet the Devil Your Head	W5	September 1841	Graham's Magazine	Satire	Subtitled "A Tale with a Moral"
Eleonora	W2	Fall 1841	The Gift for 1842	Romance
Three Sundays in a Week	W3	November 27, 1841	Saturday Evening Post	Humor	Originally "A Succession of Sundays"
The Oval Portrait	W1	April 1842	Graham's Magazine	Horror	Originally "Life in Death"	Source epubbooks.com
The Masque of the Red Death	W2	May 1842	Graham's Magazine	Horror	Originally "The Mask of the Red Death"
The Landscape Garden	W4	October 1842	Snowden's Ladies' Companion	Sketch	Later incorporated into "The Domain of Arnheim"
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt	W1	November 1842, December 1842, February 1843	Snowden's Ladies' Companion	Detective fiction	Originally subtitled "A Sequel to 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'"	Source epubbooks.com
The Pit and the Pendulum	W2	1842–1843	The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present	Horror
The Tell-Tale Heart	W2	January 1843	The Pioneer	Horror
The Conqueror Worm	W5	January 1843	Graham's Magazine	Poetry
Lenore	W5	February 1843	The Pioneer	Poetry
Lines on Joe Locke		February 28, 1843	Saturday Museum	Poetry		Source
The Gold-Bug	W1	June 1843	Dollar Newspaper	Adventure		Source epubbooks.com
The Black Cat	W2	August 19, 1843	United States Saturday Post	Horror
Diddling	W4	October 14, 1843	Philadelphia Saturday Courier	Parody	Originally "Raising the Wind; or, Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences"
The Spectacles	W3	March 27, 1844	Dollar Newspaper	Humor
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains	W3	April 1844	Godey's Lady's Book	Science fiction/ Adventure
Morning on the Wissahiccon		1844	The Opal	Essay
A Campaign Song		1844	Never published in Poe's lifetime	Poetry		Source
The Balloon-Hoax	W1	April 13, 1844	A newspaper article that was actually a journalistic hoax	Essay		Source epubbooks.com
Dream-Land	W5	June 1844	Graham's Magazine	Poetry
The Premature Burial	W2	July 31, 1844	Dollar Newspaper	Horror
Mesmeric Revelation	W2	August 1844	Columbian Magazine	Science fiction
The Oblong Box	W4	September 1844	Godey's Lady's Book	Horror / Ratiocination
The Angel of the Odd	W4	October 1844	Columbian Magazine	Humor	Subtitled "An Extravaganza"
Thou Art the Man	W5	November 1844	Godey's Lady's Book	Detective fiction / Satire
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.		December 1844	Southern Literary Messenger	Humor
The Purloined Letter	W2	1844–1845	The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present	Detective fiction
Epigram for Wall Street		January 23, 1845	Evening Mirror	Poetry		Source
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade	W2	February 1845	Godey's Lady's Book	Humor	Meant as a sequel to One Thousand and One Nights
The Raven	W5	February 1845	American Review: A Whig Journal	Poetry
Some Words with a Mummy	W5	April 1845	American Review: A Whig Journal	Satire
Impromptu. To Kate Carol		April 26, 1845	Broadway Journal	Poetry		Source
To F——	W5	April 1845	Broadway Journal	Poetry	Republished as "To Frances" in the September 6, 1845, issue of the Broadway Journal
The Power of Words	W4	June 1845	Democratic Review	Science fiction
The Imp of the Perverse	W2	July 1845	Graham's Magazine	Horror
Eulalie		July 1845	American Review: A Whig Journal	Poetry		Source
The Divine Right of Kings		October 1845	Graham's Magazine	Poetry		Source
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether	W4	November 1845	Graham's Magazine	Humor
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar	W2	December 1845	The American Review	Horror / Science fiction / Hoax	Originally "The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case"
The Sphinx	W5	January 1846	Arthur's Ladies Magazine	Satire
A Valentine	W5	February 21, 1846	Evening Mirror	Poetry	Originally published as "To Her Whose Name Is Written Below"
The Philosophy of Composition		April 1846	Graham's Magazine	Essay
The Cask of Amontillado	W2	November 1846	Godey's Lady's Book	Horror
Beloved Physician		1847	Never published in Poe's lifetime	Poetry	Incomplete	Source
Deep in Earth		1847	Never published in Poe's lifetime	Poetry	Incomplete	Source
To M. L. S—— (1847)	W5	March 13, 1847	The Home Journal	Poetry
The Domain of Arnheim	W2	March 1847	Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine	Sketch	Expansion of previous story "The Landscape Garden"
Ulalume	W5	December 1847	American Whig Review	Poetry
Lines on Ale		1848	Never published in Poe's lifetime	Poetry		Source
To Marie Louise	W5	March 1848	Columbian Magazine	Poetry
An Enigma	W5	March 1848	Union Magazine of Literature and Art	Poetry
Eureka: A Prose Poem		March 1848	Wiley & Putnam	Essay
The Rationale of Verse		October 1848	Southern Literary Messenger	Essay
To Helen	W5	November 1848	Sartain's Union Magazine	Poetry
The Poetic Principle	W5	December 1848	Southern Literary Messenger	Essay
Mellonta Tauta	W4	February 1849	Godey's Lady's Book	Science fiction / Hoax
Hop-Frog	W5	March 17, 1849	Flag of Our Union	Horror	Subtitled "Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs"
A Dream Within A Dream		March 31, 1849	The Flag of Our Union	Poetry		Source
Von Kempelen and His Discovery	W2	April 14, 1849	Flag of Our Union	Hoax
Eldorado	W5	April 21, 1849	Flag of Our Union	Poetry
For Annie	W5	April 28, 1849	Flag of Our Union	Poetry
X-ing a Paragraph	W4	May 12, 1849	Flag of Our Union	Humor
Landor's Cottage	W2	June 9, 1849	Flag of Our Union	Sketch	Originally "Landor's Cottage: A Pendant to 'The Domain of Arnheim'"
To My Mother		July 7, 1849	Flag of Our Union	Poetry		Source
Annabel Lee	W5	October 9, 1849	New York Daily Tribune	Poetry	Sold before Poe's death but published posthumously
The Bells	W5	November 1849	Sartain's Union Magazine	Poetry	Sold before Poe's death but published posthumously

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