Edgar Allan Poe Books In Order

Publication Order of C. Auguste Dupin Books

The Murders in the Rue Morgue	1841
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt	1842
The Purloined Letter	1844

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	1838
The Journal of Julius Rodman	1840

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Metzengerstein	1832
The Duc de L’Omelette	1832
A Tale of Jerusalem	1832
Loss of Breath	1832
Bon-Bon	1832
MS. Found in a Bottle	1833
The Assignation	1834
Berenice	1835
Morella	1835
Lionizing	1835
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall	1835
King Pest	1835
Shadow: A Parable	1835
Four Beasts in One: The Homo-Cameleopard	1836
Mystification	1837
Silence: A Fable	1838
Ligeia	1838
How to Write a Blackwood Article	1838
A Predicament	1838
The Devil in the Belfry	1839
The Man That Was Used Up	1839
The Fall of the House of Usher	1839
William Wilson	1839
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion	1839
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling	1840
The Business Man	1840
The Man of the Crowd	1840
A Descent into the Maelström	1841
The Island of the Fay	1841
The Colloquy of Monos and Una	1841
Never Bet the Devil Your Head	1841
Eleonora	1841
Three Sundays in a Week	1841
The Oval Portrait	1842
The Masque of the Red Death	1842
The Landscape Garden	1842
The Pit and the Pendulum	1842
The Tell-Tale Heart	1843
The Gold-Bug	1843
The Black Cat	1843
Diddling	1843
The Spectacles	1844
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains	1844
The Premature Burial	1844
Mesmeric Revelation	1844
The Oblong Box	1844
The Angel of the Odd	1844
Thou Art the Man	1844
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.	1844
The Balloon-Hoax	1844
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade	1845
Some Words with a Mummy	1845
The Power of Words	1845
The Imp of the Perverse	1845
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether	1845
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar	1845
The Sphinx	1846
The Cask of Amontillado	1846
The Domain of Arnheim	1847
Mellonta Tauta	1849
Hop-Frog	1849
Von Kempelen and His Discovery	1849
X-ing a Paragrab	1849
Landor’s Cottage	1849

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque	1839
The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe	1843
Tales	1845

Publication Order of Poetry Collections

Tamerlane and Other Poems	1827
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems	1829
Poems	1831
The Raven and Other Poems	1845

Publication Order of Poems

Tamerlane	1827
Song	1827
Imitation	1827
A Dream	1827
The Lake	1827
Spirits of the Dead	1827
Evening Star	1827
Dreams	1827
Stanzas	1827
The Happiest Day	1827
To the River	1829
Romance	1829
Fairy-Land	1829
To Science	1829
Al Aaraaf	1829
To Helen	1831
A Paean	1831
The Sleeper	1831
The City in the Sea	1831
The Valley of Unrest	1831
Israfel	1831
Enigma	1833
Fanny	1833
The Coliseum	1833
Serenade	1833
To One in Paradise	1834
Hymn	1835
To Elizabeth	1835
Latin Hymn	1836
Bridal Ballad	1837
To Zante	1837
The Haunted Palace	1839
Silence: A Sonnet	1840
Lines on Joe Locke	1843
The Conqueror Worm	1843
Lenore	1843
Dream-Land	1844
Impromptu. To Kate Carol	1845
To F / To Frances	1845
Eulalie	1845
Epigram for Wall Street	1845
The Raven	1845
The Divine Right of Kings	1845
A Valentine	1846
To M. L. S	1847
Ulalume	1847
To Marie Louise	1848
An Enigma	1848
To Helen	1848
A Dream Within a Dream	1849
Eldorado	1849
For Annie	1849
To My Mother	1849
Annabel Lee	1849
The Bells	1849

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Conchologist’s First Book	1839
Eureka: A Prose Poem	1848

About Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 to 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, best known for his poetry and for short stories of mystery and the macabre. He is generally considered a pioneer of detective fiction and an early contributor to science fiction, and he was one of the first American writers to succeed with the short story.

Poe was born in Boston on 19 January 1809, the second child of the actors David and Eliza Poe. His father abandoned the family in 1810 and his mother died the following year, after which he was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia, who never formally adopted him. He attended the University of Virginia but left after a year for lack of money. In 1827 he enlisted in the United States Army under the name Edgar A. Perry and published his first collection, “Tamerlane and Other Poems”, credited only to “a Bostonian”. He later failed as an officer cadet at West Point.

He then turned to prose, publishing his first tale, “Metzengerstein”, in 1832, and spent years working for literary journals in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, where he became known for his criticism. In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia Clemm, who died of tuberculosis in 1847. His only complete novel, “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket”, was issued in 1838.

“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) introduced the detective C. Auguste Dupin and is considered the first modern detective story. Dupin returned in “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” and “The Purloined Letter”. “The Gold-Bug” won a $100 prize and was his most widely read prose work during his lifetime. The poem “The Raven” made him a household name in 1845, although it was not a financial success.

Poe died in Baltimore on 7 October 1849, aged 40, and the cause of his death remains unknown. “Annabel Lee” and “The Bells” had been sold before he died and were published afterwards. Several of his homes are now museums, and the Mystery Writers of America present the annual Edgar Award, named after him, for distinguished work in the mystery genre.

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