381, [1] pp. Black cloth with paper title label featuring Morella illustration on front board, gilt titles and decorations on spine. Color frontispiece and plates mounted on cardstock, and black-and-white illustrations throughout text, by Harry Clarke. Tales of Mystery & Imagination (often rendered as Tales of Mystery and Imagination) is a popular title for posthumous compilations of writings by American author, essayist and poet Edgar Allan Poe and was the first complete collection of his works specifically restricting itself to his suspenseful and related tales. Includes: Ms. Found in a Bottle; Berenice; Morella; Some Passages in the Life of a Lion (Lionizing); The Assignation; Bon-Bon; King Pest; Metzengerstein; Silence; A Descent into the Maelstrom; Ligeia; The Fall of the House of Usher; William Wilson; The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion; The Man of the Crowd; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Mystery of Marie Roget; The Colloquy of Monos and Una; The Masque of the Red Death; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Gold Bug; The Black Cat; The Spectacles; The Premature Burial; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Oblong Box; The Cask of Amontillado; Landor's Cottage.
