Los cuentos de la oscuridad

Outside the time-dimension, and outside

The ever-changing spheres and shifting spaces -

Though the mad planet and its wrangling races

This moment be destroyed - he shall abide

And on immortal quests and errands ride

In cryptic service to the kings of Pnath,

Herald or spy, on the many-spangled path

With gulfs below, with muffled gods for guide.

Some echo of his voice, some vanished word

Follows the light with equal speed, and spans

The star-set limits of the universe,

Returning and returning, to be heard

When all the present worlds and spheres disperse,

In other Spicas, other Aldebarans.

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law"

El horror oculto, narra la historia de un hombre y sus dos compañeros, quienes deciden pasar una noche en la Mansión Martense, cuya horrorosa reputación está repleta de episodios ominosos...

One of the all time American classics, this short story can terrify you as well as amuse you, you will be the judge at the end...

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. Do not think from my slavery to morphine that I am a weakling or a degenerate. When you have read these hastily scrawled pages you may guess, though never fully realise, why it is that I must have forgetfulness or death...

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea,

But we loved with a love that was more than love—

I and my Annabel Lee—

With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven

Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsmen came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,

Went envying her and me—

Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,

In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we—

Of many far wiser than we—

And neither the angels in Heaven above

Nor the demons down under the sea

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,

In her sepulchre there by the sea—

In her tomb by the sounding sea.

There is snow on the ground,
And the valleys are cold,
And a midnight profound
Blackly squats o'er the wold;
But a light on the hilltops half-seen hints of feastings un-hallowed and old.
There is death in the clouds,
There is fear in the night,
For the dead in their shrouds
Hail the sin's turning flight.
And chant wild in the woods as they dance round a Yule- altar fungous and white.
To no gale of Earth's kind
Sways the forest of oak,
Where the sick boughs entwined
By mad mistletoes choke,
For these pow'rs are the pow'rs of the dark, from the graves of the lost Druid-folk.

Desarrolla la visión de un paisaje que, al mismo tiempo, se percibe como algo mágico pero también desolador; cuestiones que Edgar Allan Poe a menudo explora en sus poemas...

Relata la historia de un hombre que arriba a la casa de su amigo, Roderick Usher: una antigua mansión que, en su tiempo, debió ser majestuosa, pero que ahora se encuentra visiblemente desmejorada...

El poema fue incorporado al relato La caída de la Casa Usher como una canción escrita por Roderick Usher.

La caída de la casa Usher es posiblemente uno de los mejores relatos de Edgar Allan Poe. Este narra la caída, literal y figurada, de la Casa Usher, una antigua familia en estado de decadencia. La historia es narrada desde la perspectiva de Victor Reynolds, un amigo del último heredero de los Usher, quien lo visita para consolarlo durante la enfermedad fatal de su hermana gemela. De hecho, hay una vieja maldición de enfermedad y maldad sobre los Usher, y aunque Edgar Allan Poe nunca especifica cuál es exactamente este mal, se insinúa que es incesto, lo cual ha sido la causa de la debilidad de la familia, física y mental...