Some strangeness in the proportion: the exquisite beauties of Edgar Allan Poe / Neil Gaiman -- Poems: The city in the sea -- Tamerlane -- Eldorado -- Spirits of the dead -- The conqueror worm -- Annabel Lee -- Lenore -- The raven -- Ulalume, a ballad -- The bells -- Tales: The masque of the red death -- The fall of the House of Usher -- Berenice -- Ligeia -- The black cat -- The sphinx -- The balloon-hoax -- Ms. found in a bottle -- A descent into the maelström -- The pit and the pendulum -- The imp of the perverse -- The tell-tale heart -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- Hop-frog -- The cask of Amontillado.