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=The Fall of the House of Usher= "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The story was first published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in September 1839. It was slightly revised before being included in a collection of his fiction entitled Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. It contains within it the poem "The Haunted Palace", which had earlier been published separately in the April 1839 issue of the Baltimore Museum magazine. (from [|Wikipedia])

=The Pit and the Pendulum=

=The Masque of the Red Death= "The Masque of the Red Death," originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death," is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, has a masquerade ball within seven rooms of his abbey, each decorated with a different color. ( from [|Wikipedia])
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=The Tell-Tale Heart= The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's //The Pioneer// in January 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is widely considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and one of Poe's most famous short stories. (from [|Wikipedia] )
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=The Minister's Black Veil= "The Minister's Black Veil" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in the 1836 edition of //The Token and Atlantic Souvenir//, edited by Samuel Goodrich. It later appeared in //Twice-Told Tales//, a collection of short stories by Hawthorne published in 1837. (from [|Wikipedia] )

=The Devil and Tom Walker= "The Devil and Tom Walker" is a short story by Washington Irving that first appeared in his 1824 collection of stories and sketches //Tales of a Traveller//. It was part of the "Money-Diggers" portion. The story is about a man who sold his soul to the devil in order to obtain wealth. He later regretted this decision when he had to suffer the consequences. Both the trade with the devil and the regret suffered by Tom Walker afterward cause this story to be compared to Johann Wolfgang Goethe's drama //Faust//, which was written in Germany a few decades previously. (from [|Wikipedia] )

=Longfellow Poetry= Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", "A Psalm of Life", "The Song of Hiawatha", "Evangeline", and "Christmas Bells". He also wrote the first American translation of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" and was one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets. Longfellow was born and raised in the region of Portland, Maine. He attended university at an early age at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. After several journeys overseas, Longfellow settled for the last forty-five years of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (from [|Wikipedia] )

=Bryant Poetry= William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) an American romantic poet, journalist, political adviser, and homeopath. (from [|Wikipedia] )

=Whittier Poetry= John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. (from [|Wikipedia] )

=Holmes Poetry= Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century. (from [|Wikipedia] )

=Lowell Poetry= James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) is one of the group of authors sometimes called the Fireside Poets or the Schoolroom Poets, a group which also included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Because of their conservative approach to verse and the often blatant morality in their poetry, the very qualities that made them popular in their day, they have been out of favor throughout much of the twentieth century. Nevertheless members of the group like Lowell and Whittier, both ardent abolitionists, may not have seemed so conservative in the nineteenth century. (from [|James Russell Lowell])

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