Illustrations to Poe’s Works

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“Masquerade in the Palazzo of the Neapolitan Duke di Broglio” — William Wilson
“The beetle, which he had suffered to descend, was now visible at the end of the string” — The Gold Bug
“Madman! I tell you that she now stands without the door” — The Fall of the House of Usher
“Thou hast conquered — one hour after sunrise — we shall meet — so let it be!” — The Assignation
“The thing that was enshrouded advanced boldly and palpably into the middle of the apartment” — Ligeia
“A magic prison-house of grandeur and of glory” — Eleonora
“Darkness and decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all” — The Masque of the Red Death
“I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones” — The Cask of Amontillado
“A cloud of smoke settled heavily over the battlements in the distinct colossal figure of — a horse” — Metzengerstein
“They swarmed upon me in ever-accumulating heaps” — The Pit and the Pendulum
“I fastened myself to the cask, and precipitated myself with it into the sea ” — A Descent into the Maelstrom
“Upon the very verge of the precipitous descent hovered a gigantic ship” — MS. Found in a Bottle
“Yes; — no; — I have been sleeping — and now — now — I am dead“ — The facts in the case of M. Valdemar
“The sailor s face flushed up; he started to his feet and grasped his cudgel” — The Murders in the Rue Morgue
“I had walled the monster up within the living tomb!” — The Black Cat
“I amused myself by observing the audience” — The Spectacles

“Masquerade in the Palazzo of the Neapolitan Duke di Broglio” plate01 — William Wilson

“The beetle, which he had suffered to descend, was now visible at the end of the string” — The Gold Bug

“Madman! I tell you that she now stands without the door” — The Fall of the House of Usher

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“Thou hast conquered — one hour after sunrise — we shall meet — so let it be!” — The Assignation

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“The thing that was enshrouded advanced boldly and palpably into the middle of the apartment” — Ligeia

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“A magic prison-house of grandeur and of glory” — Eleonora

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“Darkness and decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all” — The Masque of the Red Death

plate08
“I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones” — The Cask of Amontillado

plate09
“A cloud of smoke settled heavily over the battlements in the distinct colossal figure of — a horse” — Metzengerstein

plate10
“They swarmed upon me in ever-accumulating heaps” — The Pit and the Pendulum

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“I fastened myself to the cask, and precipitated myself with it into the sea ” — A Descent into the Maelstrom

plate12
“Upon the very verge of the precipitous descent hovered a gigantic ship” — MS. Found in a Bottle

plate13
“Yes; — no; — I have been sleeping — and now — now — I am dead“ — The facts in the case of M. Valdemar

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“The sailor s face flushed up; he started to his feet and grasped his cudgel” — The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“I had walled the monster up within the living tomb!” — The Black Cat

“I amused myself by observing the audience” — The Spectacles

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