Where to Start with Edgar Allan Poe
- Best entry point → The Raven
- Best standalone → The Cask of Amontillado: Edgar Allan Poe Biography
- Start the Gilded Nightmares – Timeless British Library Books series → The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
- What readers keep coming back to → The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
- Highest rated by readers → The Fall of the House of Usher: Edgar Allan Poe's Haunting Tale of Family Secrets and Tragic Decay
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
Gilded Nightmares – Timeless British Library Books
★ 4.28 BLT Score (244.9K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (244.9K) - 3
The Cask of Amontillado: Edgar Allan Poe Biography
★ 4.13 BLT Score (89.0K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (89.0K) - 4
The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
★ 4.13 BLT Score (297.3K ratings)★ 4.4 Goodreads (297.3K) - 5
The Fall of the House of Usher: Edgar Allan Poe's Haunting Tale of Family Secrets and Tragic Decay
★ 4.08 BLT Score (90.4K ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (90.4K) - 6
The Tell-Tale Heart - Il cuore rivelatore / The Premature Burial - La sepoltura prematura
Gilded Nightmares – Timeless British Library Books
by Edgar Allan Poe, Elisabetta Querci
★ 3.99 BLT Score (244.9K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (244.9K) - 7
Annabel Lee
The dark Artifices
by Edgar Allan Poe, Gilles Tibo
★ 3.98 BLT Score (12.0K ratings)★ 4.32 Goodreads (12.0K) - 8
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2 - Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe • Book 2
by Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Barefoot
★ 3.93 BLT Score (2.6K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (2.6K) - 9
The Black Cat: Edgar Allan Poe Biography
★ 3.90 BLT Score (58.3K ratings)★ 4.03 Goodreads (58.3K) - 10
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume II (Edgar Allan Poe Classics Collection)
The Edgar Allan Poe Collection • Book 2
★ 3.89 BLT Score (2.6K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (2.6K) - 11
The Masque of the Red Death : Edgar Allan Poe
★ 3.85 BLT Score (48.1K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (48.1K) - 12
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William Wilson: (Edgar Allan Poe Masterpiece Collection)
★ 3.73 BLT Score (5.7K ratings)★ 3.78 Goodreads (5.7K) - 14
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
★ 3.67 BLT Score (5.5K ratings)★ 3.7 Goodreads (5.5K) - 15
The oval portrait (Edgar Allan Poe Collection nº 3)
★ 3.66 BLT Score (7.8K ratings)★ 3.72 Goodreads (7.8K) - 16
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural
by Stephen Jones, Henry James, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot
★ 3.62 BLT Score (339 ratings)★ 3.68 Goodreads (339) - 17
The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether
★ 3.62 BLT Score (1.7K ratings)★ 3.76 Goodreads (1.7K) - 18
Coffins
Vampire Archives • Book 3
by Otto Penzler, Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Paul Wilson, Scott Brick, Robertson Dean, Steve West, Robin Sachs, Mark Bramhall, John H. Mayer, Ryan Gesell, Rob Shapiro
★ 3.58 BLT Score (83 ratings)★ 3.6 Goodreads (83) - 19
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