This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews.

His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. We encourage any interested researcher to come and use our rare books in person in order to encounter your own “tales of mystery and imagination.The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. This image is just one example from the work, but it illustrates the depth of Clarke’s portrayal of Poe’s classic tales. Clarke’s images convey the visceral nature of Poe’s most famous works such as The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Tell-Tale Heart. In each of his drawings, Clarke borrowed from his style of staining glass to create images that are at once Gothic in atmosphere, rich in texture, and terrifying in detail. Yet this particular volume of Poe’s works is most notable for its unique illustrations by Irish artist Harry Clarke. Unfortunately, our copy is not a first edition, as George G. To highlight one book in particular, the Special Collections Research Center holds a specially-compiled volume of Edgar Allan Poe’s prose works entitled Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Some of our other rare books are first or difficult-to-find editions of works by prominent authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Rudyard Kipling, and Mark Twain, just to name a few examples. A lot of the most often used books come from fields that are also strongly represented in our manuscript collections, such as design, entomology, and architecture. Our rare books cover topics from across all academic disciplines. All of your results will be rare books in our collection. Select an advanced search and limit the location of the item to Special Collections (D. Search for our rare books in the same way that you would search for any other book at D. We also have many rare books that are available for research. Yet our collections are not limited to the manuscripts and photographs you would find in the above collections. We also encourage you to visit our Collection Guides to see what you could examine in a future research visit. We encourage all readers to visit Historical State to explore our digitized collections. On Historically Stated, we often highlight our one-of-a-kind manuscript collections and the most interesting finds in the University Archives. 'The Dagger Dropped Gleaming Upon the Sable Carpet,' by Harry Clarke, 1919

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Poe tales of mystery and imagination