He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, as well as Algernon Blackwood’s Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories, Arthur Machen’s The White People and Other Weird Stories, and American Supernatural Tales. He has also written critical studies on Lord Dunsany and H. P. Lovecraft; edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Clark Ashton Smith, and H. L. Mencken; and completed a two-volume history of supernatural fiction entitled Unutterable Horror.

THE
RAVEN

Tales and Poems

Edgar Allan Poe

PENGUIN HORROR

Series Editor Guillermo del Toro

Introduction by S. T. Joshi

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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–1849.

  [Works. Selections]

  The Raven : tales and poems / Edgar Allan Poe.

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  “Series editor Guillermo del Toro, Introduction by S. T. Joshi.”

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CONTENTS

Haunted Castles, Dark Mirrors: On the Penguin Horror Series
by GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Introduction by S. T. JOSHI

A Note on Texts

THE RAVEN

TALES

Metzengerstein (1832)

MS. Found in a Bottle (1832)

Shadow—A Parable (1833)

Silence—A Fable (1833)

Berenicë (1835)

Morella (1835)

Ligeia (1838)

The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)

William Wilson (1839)

The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839)

The Man of the Crowd (1840)

A Descent into the Maelström (1841)

The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841)

Eleonora (1841)

The Oval Portrait (1842)

The Masque of the Red Death (1842)

The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)

The Tell-Tale Heart (1842)

The Black Cat (1842)

The Premature Burial (1844)

Some Words with a Mummy (1844)

The Imp of the Perverse (1845)

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845)

The Cask of Amontillado (1846)

Hop-Frog (1849)

POEMS

Dreams (1827)

Spirits of the Dead (1827/1829)

A Dream (1827)

Sonnet—To Science (1829)

Fairy-Land (1829)

[Alone] (1829)

Fairy Land [II] (1831)

The Valley of Unrest (1831/1845)

The City in the Sea (1831/1845)

Sonnet—Silence (1839)

Lenore (1843/1844)

Dream-Land (1844)

The Raven (1844)

Ulalume—A Ballad (1847)

The Bells (1848/1849)

A Dream within a Dream (1849)

For Annie (1849)

Eldorado (1849)

Annabel Lee (1849)

HAUNTED CASTLES, DARK MIRRORS

ON THE PENGUIN HORROR SERIES

There is no god but this mirror that thou seest, for this is the Mirror of Wisdom. And it reflecteth all things that are in heaven and on earth, save only the face of him who looketh into it. This it reflecteth not, so that he who looketh into it may be wise.

—Oscar Wilde, “The Fisherman and His Soul”

To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defines our boundaries and illuminates our souls. In that, it is no different, or less controversial, than humor, and no less intimate than sex.