This is just a bit of my favourite literature. Of course, reading it on the net isn't nearly as pleasurable as curling up in a comfy chair with a proper book (and it's a heck of a lot harder on the eyes), but one must make do with what is available.

The House of Usher The definitive Edgar Allan Poe site on the web.

The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore Contains many of his obscure works.

Poe's Marginalia

Poe's The Mammoth Squash (Well, attributed to Poe, at least.)

Poe's The Philosophy of Furniture


General Literature From Aesop to H. G. Wells!

Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky

Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary

Edward Gorey


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