Short story

The Gold-Bug

Short story

What ho! what ho! this fellow is dancing mad!He hath been bitten by the Tarantula. All in the Wrong. Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want. To avoid …

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The Lighthouse

Short story

The first thing that stands out to most readers of this work is that it appears to be a fragment. It is almost certainly the last piece of fiction that Edgar Allen Poe wrote. One biographer, Kenneth Silverman, believes that Poe began The Lighthouse within six months of his death in October, 1849. Based on …

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