![]() ![]() Several collections of Poe's prose and poetry followed. The first posthumous collection of Poe's works was compiled in 1850 and included a memoir from Rufus Wilmot Griswold, but this did not confine itself to his tales of suspense and related tales. In 1839, during Poe's lifetime, a collection of his strange tales was published, but it did not include some highly regarded tales which were written later, including " The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and " A Descent into the Maelström". Tales of Mystery & Imagination (often rendered as Tales of Mystery and Imagination) is a popular title for posthumous compilations of writings by American author, essayist and poet Edgar Allan Poe and was the first complete collection of his works specifically restricting itself to his suspenseful and related tales. ![]() For the albums, see Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Alan Parsons Project album) and Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Nocturnal Rites album). This article is about the book by Edgar Allan Poe. ![]()
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