Title |
Publication date |
First published in |
Genre |
Notes |
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"Poetry" |
1824 |
Never published in Poe's lifetime |
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1825 |
Never published in Poe's lifetime |
Not authenticated,[21] attribution to Poe is likely incorrect[22] |
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July 1827 |
Tamerlane and Other Poems (credited by "a Bostonian") |
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"Song" |
July 1827 |
Tamerlane and Other Poems |
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July 1827 |
Tamerlane and Other Poems |
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"A Dream" |
July 1827 |
Tamerlane and Other Poems |
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"The Lake" |
July 1827 |
Tamerlane and Other Poems |
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July 1827 |
Tamerlane and Other Poems |
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July 1827 |
Tamerlane and Other Poems |
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"Dreams" |
July 1827 |
Tamerlane and Other Poems |
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"Stanzas" |
July 1827 |
Tamerlane and Other Poems |
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September 15, 1827 |
The North American |
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circa 1827 |
Never published in Poe's lifetime |
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"Alone" |
1829 |
Never published in Poe's lifetime |
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circa 1829 |
Never published in Poe's lifetime |
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1829 |
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems |
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"To — — " |
1829 |
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems |
Begins "The bowers whereat, in dreams..."[31] |
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"To — — " |
1829 |
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems |
Begins "Should my early life seem..."[31] |
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"Romance" |
1829 |
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems |
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1829 |
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems |
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1829 |
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems |
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1829 |
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems |
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1829 |
Never published in Poe's lifetime |
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1829 |
Never published in Poe's lifetime |
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1831? |
A projected collection of Poe's tales on "dunderism" satirizing the Delphian Club which was never completed in his lifetime |
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"To Helen" |
1831 |
Poems by Edgar A. Poe |
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"A Paean" |
1831 |
Poems by Edgar A. Poe |
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1831 |
Poems by Edgar A. Poe |
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1831 |
Poems by Edgar A. Poe |
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1831 |
Poems by Edgar A. Poe |
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"Israfel" |
1831 |
Poems by Edgar A. Poe |
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January 14, 1832 |
Philadelphia Saturday Courier |
Horror / Satire |
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March 3, 1832 |
Philadelphia Saturday Courier |
Humor |
Originally "The Duke of l'Omelette"[63] |
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June 9, 1832 |
Philadelphia Saturday Courier |
Humor |
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"Enigma" |
February 2, 1833 |
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"Fanny" |
May 18, 1833 |
Baltimore Saturday Visiter |
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October 26, 1833 |
Baltimore Saturday Visiter |
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"Serenade" |
April 20, 1833 |
Baltimore Saturday Visiter |
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January 1834 |
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"Hymn" |
April 1835 |
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September 1835 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
Republished as "To F — — s S. O — — d" in 1845[33] |
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circa 1836 |
Never published in Poe's lifetime |
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1836 |
Never published in Poe's lifetime |
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March 1836 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
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April 1836 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
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January 1837 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
Originally published as "Ballad"[43] |
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"To Zante" |
January 1837 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
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April 1839 |
American Museum |
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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
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December 1839 |
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January 4, 1840 |
Saturday Courier |
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The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe
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1843 |
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February 28, 1843 |
Saturday Museum |
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January 1843 |
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"Lenore" |
February 1843 |
The Pioneer |
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1844 |
Never published in Poe's lifetime |
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June 1844 |
Graham's Magazine |
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April 26, 1845 |
Broadway Journal |
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"To F — — " |
April 1845 |
Republished as "To Frances" in the September 6, 1845, issue of the Broadway Journal[33] |
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"Eulalie" |
July 1845 |
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January 23, 1845 |
Evening Mirror |
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February 1845 |
American Review: A Whig Journal |
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October 1845 |
Graham's Magazine |
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February 21, 1846 |
Evening Mirror |
Originally published as "To Her Whose Name Is Written Below"[55] |
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1847 |
Never published in Poe's lifetime |
Incomplete[56] |
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1847 |
Never published in Poe's lifetime |
Incomplete[57] |
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March 13, 1847 |
The Home Journal |
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"Ulalume" |
December 1847 |
American Whig Review |
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1848 |
Never published in Poe's lifetime |
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March 1848 |
Columbian Magazine |
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March 1848 |
Union Magazine of Literature and Art |
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"To Helen" |
November 1848 |
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March 31, 1849 |
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"Eldorado" |
April 21, 1849 |
Flag of Our Union |
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April 28, 1849 |
Flag of Our Union |
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July 7, 1849 |
Flag of Our Union |
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October 9, 1849 |
New York Daily Tribune |
Sold before Poe's death but published posthumously[62] |
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November 1849 |
Sartain's Union Magazine |
Sold before Poe's death but published posthumously[58] |
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1849 (never published in Poe's lifetime) |
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An incomplete work that may have been intended to be a short story or a novel [118] |
Tales[edit]
Title |
Publication date |
First published in |
Genre |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
November 10, 1832 |
Philadelphia Saturday Courier |
Humor |
Originally "A Decided Loss"[64] |
|
"Bon-Bon" |
December 1, 1832 |
Philadelphia Saturday Courier |
Humor |
Originally "The Bargain Lost"[64] |
October 19, 1833 |
Adventure |
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January 1834 |
Godey's Lady's Book |
Horror |
Originally "The Visionary", published anonymously[66] |
|
"Berenice" |
March 1835 |
Horror |
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"Morella" |
April 1835 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
Horror |
|
May 1835 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
Satire |
Subtitle: "A Tale"[39] |
|
June 1835 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
Adventure |
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September 1835 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
Horror / Humor |
Originally "King Pest the First", published anonymously[67] |
|
September 1835 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
Horror |
Published anonymously[67] |
|
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December 1835–January 1836 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
|
Two installments – Incomplete |
March 1836 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
Humor |
Originally "Epimanes"[68] |
|
The Philosophy of Animal Magnetism
|
1837 |
Pamphlet |
A pamphlet on Mesmerism credited to a "Gentleman of Philadelphia", attributed to Poe using stylometry |
|
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
|
January/February 1837 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
First two installments |
|
June 1837 |
American Monthly Magazine |
Humor |
Originally "Von Jung, the Mystific"[69] |
|
1838 |
Baltimore Book |
Horror / Fantasy |
Originally "Siope — A Fable"[60] |
|
"Ligeia" |
September 1838 |
Baltimore American Museum |
Horror |
Republished in the February 15, 1845, issue of the New York World, included the poem "The Conqueror Worm" as words written by Ligeia on her death-bed[70] |
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July 1838 |
Harper & Brothers |
Book |
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November 1838 |
Baltimore American Museum |
Parody |
An introduction to "A Predicament"[71] |
|
November 1838 |
Baltimore American Museum |
Parody |
Companion to "How to Write a Blackwood Article," originally "The Scythe of Time"[71] |
|
May 18, 1839 |
Saturday Chronicle and Mirror of the Times |
Humor / Satire |
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August 1839 |
Satire |
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September 1839 |
Burton's Gentleman's Magazine |
Horror |
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|
1839 |
|
A textbook on sea shells produced by Poe as a condensed version of a textbook by Thomas Wyatt |
|
October 1839 |
The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1840 |
Horror |
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December 1839 |
Burton's Gentleman's Magazine |
Science fiction |
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1840 |
Humor |
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January–June 1840 |
Burton's Gentleman's Magazine |
First six installments, Incomplete |
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February 1840 |
Burton's Gentleman's Magazine |
Humor |
Originally "Peter Pendulum"[75] |
|
May 1840 |
Burton's Gentleman's Magazine |
|
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December 1840 |
Graham's Magazine |
Horror |
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April 1841 |
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May 1841 |
Graham's Magazine |
Adventure |
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June 1841 |
Graham's Magazine |
Fantasy |
||
"A Few Words on Secret Writing"
|
July 1841 |
Graham's Magazine |
|
|
August 1841 |
Graham's Magazine |
Science fiction |
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September 1841 |
Graham's Magazine |
Satire |
Subtitled "A Tale with a Moral"[79] |
|
"Eleonora" |
Fall 1841 |
The Gift for 1842 |
Romance |
|
November 27, 1841 |
Saturday Evening Post |
Humor |
Originally "A Succession of Sundays"[81] |
|
April 1842 |
Graham's Magazine |
Horror |
Originally "Life in Death"[82] |
|
May 1842 |
Graham's Magazine |
Horror |
Originally "The Mask of the Red Death"[83] |
|
October 1842 |
Snowden's Ladies' Companion |
Sketch |
Later incorporated into "The Domain of Arnheim"[84] |
|
November 1842, December 1842, February 1843 (serialized)[69] |
Snowden's Ladies' Companion |
Detective fiction |
Originally subtitled "A Sequel to 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'"[85] |
|
1842–1843 |
The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present |
Horror |
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January 1843 |
The Pioneer |
Horror |
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June 1843 |
Dollar Newspaper |
Adventure |
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August 19, 1843 |
United States Saturday Post |
Horror |
||
"Diddling" |
October 14, 1843 |
Philadelphia Saturday Courier |
Parody |
Originally "Raising the Wind; or, Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences"[90] |
1844 |
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March 27, 1844 |
Dollar Newspaper |
Humor |
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April 1844 |
Godey's Lady's Book |
Science fiction, Adventure |
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|
April 13, 1844 |
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July 31, 1844 |
Dollar Newspaper |
Horror |
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August 1844 |
Columbian Magazine |
Science fiction |
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September 1844 |
Godey's Lady's Book |
Horror / Ratiocination |
||
October 1844 |
Columbian Magazine |
Humor |
Subtitled "An Extravaganza"[95] |
|
November 1844 |
Godey's Lady's Book |
Detective fiction / Satire |
||
December 1844 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
Humor |
||
1844–1845 |
The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present |
Detective fiction |
||
The Raven and Other Poems
|
1845 |
Wiley & Putnam |
|
|
Tales
|
1845 |
Wiley & Putnam |
|
|
February 1845 |
Godey's Lady's Book |
Humor |
Meant as a sequel to One Thousand and One Nights[97] |
|
April 1845 |
American Review: A Whig Journal |
Satire |
||
June 1845 |
Democratic Review |
Science fiction |
||
July 1845 |
Graham's Magazine |
Horror |
||
November 1845 |
Graham's Magazine |
Humor |
||
December 1845 |
The American Review |
Horror / Science fiction / Hoax |
Originally "The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case"[102] |
|
January 1846 |
Arthur's Ladies Magazine |
Satire |
||
"The Philosophy of Composition"
|
April 1846 |
Graham's Magazine |
|
|
November 1846 |
Godey's Lady's Book |
Horror |
||
March 1847 |
Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine |
Sketch |
Expansion of previous story "The Landscape Garden"[105] |
|
|
March 1848 |
Wiley & Putnam |
|
|
"The Rationale of Verse"
|
October 1848 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
|
|
|
December 1848 |
Southern Literary Messenger |
|
|
February 1849 |
Godey's Lady's Book |
Science fiction / Hoax |
||
"Hop-Frog" |
March 17, 1849 |
Flag of Our Union |
Horror |
Subtitled "Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs"[58] |
April 14, 1849 |
Flag of Our Union |
Hoax / Satire |
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May 12, 1849 |
Flag of Our Union |
Humor |
||
June 9, 1849 |
Flag of Our Union |
Sketch |
Originally "Landor's Cottage: A Pendant to 'The Domain of Arnheim'"[108] |