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EDGAR ALLAN POE (STORY DATE 1836)

SOURCE: Poe, Edgar Allan. "Shadow—A Parable." In Great Tales of Terror from Europe and America: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance, 1765–1840, edited by Peter Haining. 1972. Reprint edition, pp. 503-06. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1973.

The following short story was first published in The Southern Literary Messenger in 1836.

'Yea! though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow.'

                               Psalm of David

Ye who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows. For indeed strange things shall happen, and secret things be known, and many centuries shall pass away, ere these memorials be seen of men. And, when seen, there will be some to disbelieve, and some to doubt, and yet a few who will find...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Edgar Allan Poe (Story Date 1836)
   2. Edgar Allan Poe (Story Date 1842)
4. General Commentary
   1. Maurice LéVy (Essay Date 1968)
   2. Clark Griffith (Essay Date 1972)
5. Title Commentary
   1. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
   2. "The Fall of the House of Usher"
6. Further Reading

1. Edgar Allan Poe