The Power of Words

Poe's only finished novel. A stowaway survives mutiny, shipwreck and worse on the way to the Antarctic, and the ending has been argued over for a hundred and eighty years.

Edgar Allan Poe

A fisherman is pulled into a whirlpool off the Norwegian coast and reasons his way out of it. Poe doing terror and physics in the same breath.

Edgar Allan Poe

A manuscript thrown overboard by a man aboard a ghost ship heading south. The story that first won Poe a prize and a readership.

Edgar Allan Poe

A bankrupt bellows-mender builds a balloon and flies it to the moon, with the engineering worked out in earnest. Early science fiction, played half straight and half for laughs.

Edgar Allan Poe

Poe's unfinished novel of an expedition up the Missouri, written so convincingly that a Senate report cited it as fact. The frontier Poe, which almost nobody has read.

Edgar Allan Poe