This file contains all five volumes of The Raven edition. Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell; Death of Poe, by N. P. Willis; The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal; The Gold-Bug; Four Beasts in One; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Mystery of Marie RogĂȘt; The Balloon-Hoax; MS. Found in a Bottle; and The Oval Portrait; The Purloined Letter; The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade; A Descent into the Maelström; Von Kempelen and his Discovery; Mesmeric Revelation; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Black Cat; The Fall of the House of Usher; Silence -- a Fable; The Masque of the Red Death; The Cask of Amontillado; The Imp of the Perverse; The Island of the Fay; The Assignation; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Premature Burial; The Domain of Arnheim; Landor's Cottage; William Wilson; The Tell-Tale Heart; Berenice; and Eleonora Narrative of A. Gordon Pym; Ligeia; Morella; A Tale of the Ragged Mountains; The Spectacles; King Pest; Three Sundays in a Week; The Devil in the Belfry; Lionizing; X-ing a Paragrab; Metzengerstein; The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether; How to Write a Blackwood article; A Predicament; Mystification Diddling; The Angel of the Odd; Mellonta Tauta; The Duc de l'Omelette; The Oblong Box; Loss of Breath; The Man That Was Used Up; The Business Man; The Landscape Garden; Maelzel's Chess-Player; The Power of Words; The Colloquy of Monos and Una; The Conversation of Eros and Charmion; and Shadow.--A Parable; Philosophy of Furniture; A Tale of Jerusalem; The Sphinx; Hop-Frog; The Man of the Crowd; Never Bet the Devil Your Head; Thou Art the Man; Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling; Bon-Bon; Some words with a Mummy; The Poetic Principle; Old English Poetry; and POEMS.
Edgar Allan Poe è nato a Boston (USA) nel 1809 da una famiglia di attori girovaghi. Non ebbe modo di conoscerli approfonditamente poiché la madre morì quando ancora era un infante e il padre, alcolizzato, abbandonò la famiglia subito dopo la morte della moglie. Il piccolo Edgar fu quindi allevato da un ricco mercante di Richmond di nome John Allan.
Anche Edgar Allan Poe era solito deliziarsi dell'uso di alcool e gioco d'azzardo, motivo per cui John Allan lo estromise dal testamento.