Dec 15, 2009

The Fall of the House of Usher | What Do I Read Next?

Poe's epic poem "The Raven," published in 1845, centers on a young scholar who is emotionally tormented by a raven's ominous repetition of the word "nevermore" in answer to his question about the probability of an afterlife with his deceased lover.

Poe's "Ligeia" is a long poem in which a husband narrates the story of his beautiful dead wife who returns from the grave and assumes the identity of his second wife.

"Young Goodman Brown" is a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne a contemporary of Poe. Written in 1835,...