Everyman's Library produced their own copies of the 1908 version for several decades. The 1908 version of Tales of Mystery and Imagination has been reproduced many times since under this same title by several publishers across the world for over 100 years, and Colum's selection of tales forms the backbone of subsequent versions under this same name. using its Home Library Book Company, as part of 'John O'London's' Home Library. Ĭolum's 1908 collection of Poe's tales was published as a book specifically aimed at the general reading public by the influential publishing house of Geoffrey Newnes Ltd. Colum hence also left out two works as too lengthy, these being The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and ' The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall'. In his introduction to the 1908 edition Colum cites a reason for his adoption of this selection: his opinion that 'tales' as opposed to 'short stories' were so short that they tended to lack descriptions of socially important experiences. The original collection, in keeping with its title, deliberately excluded Poe's poems, comedies and essays. Brunetiere called events 'on the margin' of life. The title of this collection was then adopted by Padraic Colum in 1908 in view of the growing reputation of Poe's taste for suspense, especially in the context of what his French critic M. The title 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination' was first used by 'The World's Classics', London, and printed by Grant Richard, 48 Leicester Sq. The precursor to Tales of Mystery and Imagination was a collection of Poe's works entitled Tales of Mystery, Imagination and Humor. Several collections of Poe's prose and poetry followed. The first posthumous collection of Poe's works was compiled in 1850 and included a memoir from Rufus Wilmot Griswold, but this did not confine itself to his tales of suspense and related tales.

In 1839, during Poe's lifetime, a collection of his strange tales was published, but it did not include some highly regarded tales which were written later, including ' The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and ' A Descent into the Maelström'. Tales of Mystery & Imagination (often rendered as Tales of Mystery and Imagination) is a popular title for posthumous compilations of writings by American author, essayist and poet Edgar Allan Poe and was the first complete collection of his works specifically restricting itself to his suspenseful and related tales. For the albums, see Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Alan Parsons Project album) and Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Nocturnal Rites album). This article is about the book by Edgar Allan Poe.

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