PYe who read are still among the living, but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows. For indeed strange things shall happen, and secret things be known, and many cen- turies shall pass away ere these memorials be seen of men. And when seen there will be some to dis- believe, and some to doubt, and yet a few who will find much to ponder upon in the characters here graven with a stylus of iron.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Volume 1
'Morella' 'Lionizing' 'William Wilson' 'The Man That Was Used Up — A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign' 'The Fall of the House of Usher' 'The Duc de L'Omelette' 'MS. Found in a Bottle' 'Bon-Bon' 'Shadow — A Parable' 'The Devil in the Belfry' 'Ligeia' 'King Pest — A Tale Containing an Allegory' 'The Signora Zenobia' 'The Scythe of Time'