A descent into the maelstrom On Edgar Allan Poe / by T. Jefferson Parker The cask of Amontillado Under the covers with Fortunato and Montresor / by Jan Burke The curse of Amontillado / by Lawrence Block The black cat Pluto's heritage / by P.J. Parrish William Wilson Identity crisis / by Lisa Scottoline Manuscript found in a bottle In a strange city : Baltimore and the Poe toaster / by Laura Lippman The fall of the house of Usher Once upon a midnight dreary / by Michael Connelly The facts in the case of M. Valdemar The thief / by Laurie R. King Ligeia Poe and me at the movies / by Tess Gerritsen The tell-tale heart The genius of "The tell-tale heart" / by Stephen King The first time / by Steve Hamilton The pit and the pendulum The pit, the pendulum, and perfection / by Edward D. Hoch The pit and the pendulum at the Palace / by Peter Robinson The masque of the red death Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and me / by S.J. Rozan The murders in the Rue Morgue The quick and the undead / by Nelson DeMille The gold-bug Imagining Edgar Allan Poe / by Sara Paretsky The raven Rantin' and ravin' / by Joseph Wambaugh A little thought on Poe / by Thomas H. Cook The bells Poe in G minor / by Jeffrey Deaver Excerpt from The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket How I became an Edgar Allan Poe convert / by Sue Grafton