href="#ulink_e339e082-5810-5b8c-b973-47fb155e43e4">THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER.
THE CONVERSATION OF EIROS AND CHARMION.
WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING.
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE.
THE COLLOQUY OF MONOS AND UNA.
NEVER BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD.
DIDDLING CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE EXACT SCIENCES.
A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS.
THE LITERARY LIFE OF THINGUM BOB, ESQ.
THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE.
THE SYSTEM OF DOCTOR TARR AND PROFESSOR FETHER.
THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR.
VON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY.
·18· METZENGERSTEIN.
Pestis eram vivus—moriens tua mors ero.
Martin Luther.
Horror and fatality have been stalking abroad in all ages. Why then give a date to the story I have to tell? Let it suffice to say, that at the period of which I speak, there existed, in the interior of Hungary, a settled although hidden belief in the doctrines of the Metempsychosis. Of the doctrines themselves—that is, of their falsity, or of their probability—I say nothing. I assert, however, that much of our incredulity (as La Bruyère says of all our unhappiness) “vient de ne pouvoir être seuls.” (†)
