DESPERATELY NEED *Specific* Edgar Allan Poe Collection Contents Because DESPERATE, HELP, THANKS!

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Can anyone please list a table of contents for the specific edition of Selected Poems and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe published by Barnes & Noble in 2004, with the Neil Gaiman introduction and Mark Summers illustrations, ISBN 9780760756744--not to mention the other "21 editions"? Just looking at the number of pages of this and several others, it seems they CAN'T be reprints of the exact same contents, but DIFFERENT books with the SAME title. (One source said originally published in 1943, which I doubt...but if I could even get the table of contents to the 1943 edition it would be a start.) Please correct me if mistaken! Thanks.

Need because I have decided on this book out of countless possibilities, as containing both tales and poems, but not so horribly many I can't get through them all by Poe's 210th birthday on January 19 if I start NOW! Every other collection I found contains either tales or poems or has everything when I only need a good selection, or is loaded down with essays and glossaries and extra educational crap. Ordered this on the 14th but don't know when it will arrive.

MUST START NOW to finish in time!

CAN'T START without knowing what is in this specific collection, to try to avoid wasting time on items not in this collection, or rushing through everything I can, and then when the collection arrives, finding I blew it by actually finishing BEFORE the 19th! (Well, I guess I could if I just left the introduction till last, but knowing makes me feel better.) Details of what I need are below, and details of why I couldn't find this information myself is in the "What I Did Today" thread. Thanks!

My Halloween viewing inspired me to find this gem of an audio collection of which details are as follows.

The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection(CD, Compilation)

Label: Caedmon Records ‎– CD 4148(5)
Format: 5 × CD, Compilation
Country: USA & Canada
Released: 03 Oct 2000
Genre:
Non-Music
Style: Audiobook, Spoken Word

Tracklist

1-1 To- Narrator – Basil Rathbone 1:48
1-2 Alone Narrator – Basil Rathbone 1:01
1-3 The City In The Sea Narrator – Basil Rathbone 3:01
1-4 The Fall Of The House Of Usher Narrator – Basil Rathbone
22:57
1-5 The Haunted Palace Narrator – Basil Rathbone 2:15
1-6 The Pit And The Pendulum Narrator – Basil Rathbone 30:27
2-1 The Masque Of The Red Death Narrator – Basil Rathbone
16:25
2-2 The Tell-Tale Heart Narrator – Basil Rathbone 13:40
2-3 The Black Cat Narrator – Basil Rathbone 25:57
3-1 The Raven Narrator – Basil Rathbone 8:15
3-2 The Facts Of The Case Of M. Valdemar
Narrator – Basil Rathbone 16:15
3-3 The Cask Of Amontillado Narrator – Basil Rathbone 15:45
3-4 The Bells Narrator – Basil Rathbone 4:02
3-5 Annabel Lee Narrator – Basil Rathbone 2:03
3-6 Eldorado Narrator – Basil Rathbone 0:39
4-1 Ligeia Narrator – Vincent Price 47:03
4-2 The Imp Of The Perverse Narrator – Vincent Price 14:06
4-3 Morella Narrator – Vincent Price 14:45
5-1 Berenice Narrator – Vincent Price 23:50
5-2 The Gold Bug Narrator – Vincent Price 53:50

The entire collection is available online for free here: 5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone | Open Culture

There was, however, some complaint about poor sound quality. Not to worry, though, most or all of the selections are on YouTube and what I heard sounded fine!

Also performed by Vincent Price, but not in this collection:

The Tell-Tale Heart, running time 14:16
The Sphinx, running time 22:03
The Pit and the Pendulum, running time 15:44
The Raven, running time 9:58
The Conqueror Worm, running time 3:44

Total running time 8 or 10 hours or something...math isn't my best thing.
 

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Publisher's image. I've seen a few interior images but not, alas, of the Table of Contents! It's not available by Google Books or as an eBook and has no "Look Inside" option on Amazon.
 

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THANKS SO MUCH, EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I KNEW I COULD COUNT ON YOU TO COME THROUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From this it would appear there is an introduction, available on Neil Gaiman's website if the book doesn't come in time, and which I can easily read online should it come to that. Neil Gaiman | Cool Stuff | Essays | Essays By Neil | Some Strangeness in the Proportion: The Exquisite Beauties of Edgar Allan Poe.

Spideyman's Table of Contents lists seven selections and Wayoftheredpanda's lists ten, although no sure way to tell that either list is complete. I do have number of pages but don't know size of type or how much space illustrations may take. Total of the different selections comes to 13 which sounds PERFECT (I was kind of hoping for a selection of 13 pieces for #1313 but dared not hope too far, so this is way better than I hoped)!

I have already so far today read four of the selections by way of working myself through the Basil Rathbone recordings top to bottom. I will continue with Basil Rathbone and Vincent Price and am now on my way to attempt to dig up my Complete Poems and Tales as it looks as if at least five of those in this collection were not recorded either by Rathbone or Price and in case I can't find any good recording and the book I ordered doesn't come in time I'll read them. As I am really loving the recordings I will complete this as my #1313 and maybe be able to count another Poe collection containing some of the same selections as #1314.
 

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1547693807810.png all the usual stories. . Saw dave vanian lead singer of the damned in grosvenor park/square in london (the park outside the american embassy as seen in the movie the omen with gregory peck. It had the big eagle out front. I think they have a new embassy that cost about a billion bucks I was on a bench lying donw.. then went to highgate cemetery to see stuff from hammer films. saw carl marx grave. also went and saw stuff from minder where Terry and Arthur drank at the winchester club. went to baker street and madame tusauds. my friend andrew from high school, gave me this book for my birthday in 1986 (i think) hasn't got the complete collection of stories. I want to read what corey is reading the collection of Poe's stories.
 
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Blake, you mean the collection I am actually reading (of apparently 13 of the best-known poems and stories), or the complete collection which I have, and was looking for, and haven't found? The Basil Rathbone and Vincent Price readings are available for free on YouTube if you can stand a few annoying commercials, and the stories and readings are great!

There are also fine editions both of the book I have ordered and of others including complete works on eBay. I have no intention of reading the complete works, sorry.
 
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So, I plumbed the depths of the basement and looked through the last three boxes I hadn't recently ransacked either for reading material or to check for duplicates to know which books to sell, trade, or give away, and can check off one more place where neither the Poe collection nor some of the other books for which I was looking are to be found. The Poe collection was a large hardcover. I don't believe it was ex-library as I remember a paper dust jacket but not a plastic jacket cover. I believe the jacket was illustrated by Edward Gorey. If there were any interior illustrations they were probably just little designs at the tops of certain stories or poems.
 

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Blake, you mean the collection I am actually reading (of apparently 13 of the best-known poems and stories), or the complete collection which I have, and was looking for, and haven't found? The Basil Rathbone and Vincent Price readings are available for free on YouTube if you can stand a few annoying commercials, and the stories and readings are great!

There are also fine editions both of the book I have ordered and of others including complete works on eBay. I have no intention of reading the complete works, sorry.
I will look up those things you mentioned, Corey, especially the Vincent Price readings as I think his voice is fantastic. I have never come across a book that had all of Poe's works in one volume. I think you can get a lot of his stuff on Project Gutenberg for free. I recently watched the Fall of the House of Usher by Roger Corman starring Vincent Price and the colors are very good.
 

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I will look up those things you mentioned, Corey, especially the Vincent Price readings as I think his voice is fantastic. I have never come across a book that had all of Poe's works in one volume. I think you can get a lot of his stuff on Project Gutenberg for free. I recently watched the Fall of the House of Usher by Roger Corman starring Vincent Price and the colors are very good.

The only movie I have seen is The Pit and the Pendulum but now having read the stories I am interested to see the Price movies.
 

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The latest is, book #1313 is not on the list yet.

Once I finally settled on a volume with which I was really happy and ordered a copy, I wasn't sure of the contents nor did it arrive by January 19 (nor by the 22nd either). On the 18th, after ransacking the house as far as I considered worth doing, I went to the local library and checked out a Complete Poems and Tales. The young clerk was very excited as he had just gathered a number of facts to print out for Poe's birthday the following day. I found their copy of The Martian Chronicles, showed him the story "Usher II," and was later able to email him information on the Rathbone and Price recordings and many songs. In that way, it turned out to be really good that the book I ordered had not come nor could I find the one I know I have.

Before placing the book order, I wrote the seller asking for a Table of Contents. They wrote back asking for 24 hours to answer and took 10 days, by which time I had ordered the book anyway. My dear friends on the Stephen King forum supplied a list of 13 items which as it turned out was not complete (I thought the book was kind of large for only 13 items but of course did not know type size or number of illustrations.)

Finally today they sent the Table of Contents which is as follows:

Poems

The City in the Sea
Tamerlane
Eldorado
Spirits of the Dead
The Conqueror Worm
Annabel Lee
Lenore
The Raven
Ulalume--A Ballad
The Bells

Tales

The Masque of the Red Death
The Fall of the House of Usher
Berenice
Ligeia
The Black Cat
The Sphinx
The Balloon-Hoax
Ms. Found in a Bottle
A Descent into the Maelstrom
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Imp of the Perverse
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Hop-Frog
The Cast of Amontillado

Appendix A

Edgar Allan Poe: A Brief Chronology

Appendix B

A Select List of Terms and Phrases

Given that by the time I made up my mind on a collection and finally started reading and listening, it took me until 11:50 p.m. on January 19 to finish even the 13 I knew about, there is no way in hell I could have got through all of these and I'm just as glad I didn't know. I am pleased to relate that Poe's wife, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, was just as thoughtful and courteous as dear Mr. Kipling, in arranging to die on January 30, 1847. As she was such an inspiration to Poe, she naturally deserves fair acknowledgement and credit, and commemorating her death date gives me additional time to finish the remaining pieces.