My mom gave me this book, which was offered by a local library as part of its year-long reading initiative. It is a selection of works by Edgar Allan Poe along with a listing of events the library has set up to encourage discussion of Poe and his works.

Some of the selections I had read previously (The Tell-Tale Heart, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven) and some I had not (Eulalie and For Annie). Even the ones I had read previously were read so long ago that I didn't necessarily remember all of the plot twists.

Poe is very good at writing macabre, slightly scary, slightly twisted stories. These selections also have a theme of having an unnamed narrator who is telling the story or relating the poem. ( )