Mixed bag - the best are brilliant (The Purloined Letter, The Pit & the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, the Black Cat, Tell-tale Heart), a few are dreadfully dull (Mesmeric Revelations, The Domain of Arnheim) and some were good but not excellent. ( )

Ah, here are the "classics" of Poe—The Purloined Letter, The Cask of Amontillado, The Masque of the Red Death. But in between are more of those skipping tales of fancy, like The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade, wherein she is a smart-ass and it ends badly. And tucked in at the end are two pieces that I was wildly excited about, primarily Landor's Cottage (which The Domain of Arnheim is but a set-up for):"One thing became more and more evident the longer I gazed: an artist, and one with a most scrupulous eye for form, had superintended all these arrangements. The greatest care had been taken to preserve a due medium between the neat and graceful on the one hand, and the picturesque, in the true sense of the Italian term, on the other. There were few straight, and no long uninterrupted lines. The same effect of curvature or of color appeared twice, usually, but not oftener, at any one point of view. Everywhere was variety in uniformity. It was a piece of "composition," in which the most fastidiously critical taste could scarcely have suggested an emendation."Eee! Gothic Revival gardening—a vibrant rebuttal to the staid classic style's geometry and control of form—with influences in theatre dressing and nature at its wildest, here described so heart-rendingly and with perfect form. Why the crap do we only pay attention to the probable incest of Usher? ( )

1903 - copyrighted by P. F. Collier & Son. (Five volumes, but continues several of the errors from the Griswold edition. Called the "Raven Edition.") (Still carries the introductory articles by Willis and Lowell.)
http://www.eapoe.org/works/editions/griswold.htm ( )