One of the only fully annotated and illustrated editions of Poe available on the English-speaking market, this collectible volume is bolstered by thousands of critical, historical, and psychoanalytical insights, dozens of chilling chiaroscuro drawings, and two short discussions accompanying each classic tale. This illustrated and annotated critical edition includes twenty of Poe's most psychologically harrowing weird tales and fourteen of his most notable poems, specially selected to satisfy the veteran devotee and the curious reader alike. Long recognized as a cornerstone in the development of science fiction, fantasy, body horror, the weird tale, and the American short story, Edgar Allan Poe's legacy in those genres is indelible. His philosophical meditations on the combustible relationship between the mind and the body - the psychical and the physical - were often grisly, sometimes fantastical, always unsettling, and consistently cynical of humanity's ability to divorce the ideals of imagination from the reality of mortal life. TALES INCLUDED in this ANNOTATED EDITION: Metzengerstein MS Found in a Bottle The Assignation Berenice Morella The Shadow Silence Ligeia The Fall of the House of Usher William Wilson The Man of the Crowd A Descent into the Maelstrom The Oval Portrait The Masque of the Red Death The Pit and the Pendulum The Tell-Tale Heart The Black Cat The Case of M. Valdemar The Cask of Amontillado Hop-Frog POEMS INCLUDED in this ANNOTATED EDITION: Alone The Valley of Unrest Annabel Lee The Bells The Haunted Palace The Conqueror Worm Dream-Land Eldorado A Dream within a Dream The City in the Sea The Raven The Sleeper Ulalume Lenore