Series editor's Preface; 1. Introduction Kenneth Silverman; 2. Poe and the unreadable: The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart Christopher Benfey; 3. The perverse strategy in The Fall of the House of Usher Louise J. Kaplan; 4. Detecting the truth: the world of the Dupin tales David Van Leer; 5. Poe's art of transformation: The Cask of Amontillado in its cultural context David Reynolds; 6. Poe, Ligeia, and the problem of dying women J. Gerald Kennedy; Notes on contributors; Selected bibliography.
A variety of critical approaches illuminate different facets of Poe's complex imagination.
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