Edgar Allan Poe
The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade
by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)Truth is stranger than fiction.Old saying.
HAVING had occasion, lately, in the course of some Oriental investigations, to consult the Tellmenow Isitsoornot, a work which (like the Zohar of Simeon Jochaides) is scarcely known at all, even in Europe; and which has never been quoted, to my knowledge, by any American — [...]
The Masque of the Red Death
by EDGAR ALLAN POE
The red death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal–the madness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the [...]
