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Top 10 Edgar Allan Poe Collections The Works

By Esther Lombardi, About.com

The poems and short stories of Edgar Allan Poe are full of horror and mystery. With these collections, you'll get a taste for the works of Edgar Allan Poe, whose critical essays, poems, and other works are an important part of American literature. Read more from one of America's greatest literary masters.

1. The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

Editor G. R. Thompson offers a critical introduction to Edgar Allan Poe's text, but also provides annotations, a bibliography, along with a collection of reviews, prefaces, and correspondence.
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2. Selected Tales

This collection includes "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Purloined Letter," along with 20 other works. Along with the works of horror and mystery, you'll find travel narratives, metaphysical essays, and political satires.
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3. Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe

This collection includes poems, short stories and works of criticism in one authoritative volume. With works like "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart," you'll learn why G. R. Thompson calls Poe a great satirist, comedic craftsman, and gothic writer.
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4. Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

Edward H. Davidson presents this collection of Edgar Allan Poe's selected writings, with an introduction and critical commentary on Poe's most popular works.
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5. Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

"The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe" offers 68 tales, 47 poems, 13 critical essays, and "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym." With these brilliant and original works, you'll read Poe at his best.
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6. Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection

Listen to some of Poe's most terrifying tales and chilling poems with Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. With these 20 works, the intensity of these tales comes to life.
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7. Selected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Diane Johnson offers an introduction to the works of Edgar Allan Poe. This collection features 18 stories, including "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym," "Four Beasts in One," "William Wilson," The Tell-Tale Heart," and more.
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8. Raven and Other Poems and Tales

This small-format collection features 16 poems and short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, with illustrations by Daniel Alan Green. Read these works of one of America's most popular writers.
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9. The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allen Poe

Read some of Poe's classic works, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "William Wilson," "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "Eleonora."
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10. Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Bruce I. Weiner offers an introduction to this Wordsworth Editions collection, with more than 50 short stories and more than 50 poems.
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