Critical Insights: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Table of Contents THE TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE About This Volume, by Steven Frye The Tales and Their Author On Poe's Tales, by Steven Frye Biography of Edgar Allan Poe, by Charles E. May The Paris Review Perspective, by Nathaniel Rich Critical Contexts A Debt Owed, a Debt Paid: Poe's Literary Cultural Heritage, by Jeff Grieneisen and Courtney Ruffner Introduction to Poe Criticism, by Susan Amper "Hypocrite Lecteur": The Reader as Accomplice in Poe's Short Stories, by Matthew Bolton Edgar Allan Poe's Fantastic Short Stories, by Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan Critical Readings Irresistible Impulses: Edgar Allan Poe and the Insanity Defense, by John Cleman The Limits of Reason: Poe's Deluded Detectives, by J. Gerald Kennedy What Happens in "The Fall of the House of Usher"?, by J. O. Bailey Poe and the Powers of the Mind, by Robert Shulman The Motive for Murder in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, by Elena V. Baraban The Problem of Realism in "The Gold Bug", by J. Woodrow Hassell, Jr. The Self-Consuming Narrator in Poe's "Ligeia" and "Usher", by Ronald Bieganowski Poe's Re-Vision: The Recovery of the Second Story, by Cynthia S. Jordan Absolute Poe: His System of Transcendental Racism, by Maurice S. Lee Resources Chronology of Edgar Allan Poe's Life Works by Edgar Allan Poe Bibliography About the Editor About The Paris Review Contributors Acknowledgments Index