Chacun a ses vertus. CRÉBILLON'S Xerxes. ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES is very generally looked upon as the Gog of the prophet Ezekiel. Th...

Edgar Allan Poe by Frederick Halpin TO THE EDITORS OF THE LADY'S BOOK: I have the honor of sending you, for your magazine, an...

Αυτο χαθ’ αυτο μεθ’ αυτου, μονο ειδες αιει ον. Itself, by itself, solely, ONE everlasting, and single. PLATO. Sympos. WITH a...

Edgar Allan Poe portrait attributed to William Huddy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander, Wi...

What chance, good lady, hath bereft you thus? COMUS. IT was a quiet and still afternoon when I strolled forth in the goodly cit...

SUN OFFICE April 13, 10 o'clock A.M. ================================== ASTOUNDING NEWS! BY EXPRESS VIA NORFOLK: ----------...

Edgar Allan Poe Portrait by Samuel S. Osgood UNA. "Born again?" MONOS. Yes, fairest and best beloved Una, "born aga...

Stay for me there! I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale. HENRY KING, Bishop of Chichester, Exequy on the death of his wi...

Quand un bon vin meuble mon estomac, Je suis plus savant que Balzac - Plus sage que Pibrac ; Mon brass seul faisant l'a...

IT WAS a chilly November afternoon. I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the le...

IT WAS well said of a certain German book that "er lasst sich nicht lesen"-it does not permit itself to be read. There are s...

THE MOST notorious ill-fortune must in the end yield to the untiring courage of philosophy-as the most stubborn city to the ceaseless ...

WHATEVER doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Of these latter,...

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 ...

Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe by Alejandro Cabeza AND the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will...

There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide. Men and circumstances generally modify...

During the fall of the year 1827, while residing near Charlottesville, Virginia, I casually made the acquaintance of Mr Augustus Bedlo...

DURING the dread reign of the Cholera in New York, I had accepted the invitation of a relative to spend a fortnight with him in the ret...

I WILL now play the Oedipus to the Rattleborough enigma. I will expound to you-as I alone can-the secret of the enginery that effect...

Qui n'a plus qu'un moment a vivre N'a plus rien a dissimuler. —Quinault—Atys OF my country and of my family I have litt...