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My top 10 favorite short stories

1. Young Goodman Brown
2. The Rocking-Horse Winner
3. Sredni Vashtar
4. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
5. Bartleby the Scrivener
6. The State of Grace by Harold Brodkey
7. They’re Not Your Husband
8. For Esme with Love and Squalor
9. The Girls in their Summer Dresses
10. Black and Tan by Madison Smartt Bell

It was probably the “les killer was les monke” story.

>>22635557
I did read his complete works. It was a doorstop of a book. I don't remember how many stories he wrote but it must be close to 100.

>>22450843
Which Poe story has him dreaming about the dancing dishes? Upper left in this pic.

The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher are really Poe's best works. I used to like The Masque of the Red Death, but lately I've been liking it less and less.
>>22179876
Hop Frog is a good story just because of how crazy it was. I couldn't believe Poe wrote a story about a dwarf tricking a king into dressing up like a monkey so he could kill him.

How many stories by Edgar Allen Poe can you recognize?

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