



Produced by David Widger





THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

IN FIVE VOLUMES

VOLUME FOUR

The Raven Edition


Contents:

     The Devil in the Belfry
     Lionizing
     X-ing a Paragraph
     Metzengerstein
     The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
     The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
     How to Write a Blackwood article
     A Predicament
     Mystification
     Diddling
     The Angel of the Odd
     Mellonia Tauta
     The Duc de l'Omlette
     The Oblong Box
     Loss of Breath
     The Man That Was Used Up
     The Business Man
     The Landscape Garden
     Maelzel's Chess-Player
     The Power of Words
     The Colloquy of Monas and Una
     The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
     Shadow.--A Parable





THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY

     What o'clock is it?--_Old Saying_.

EVERYBODY knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world
is--or, alas, was--the Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss. Yet as
it lies some distance from any of the main roads, being in a somewhat
out-of-the-way situation, there are perhaps very few of my readers
who have ever paid it a visit. For the benefit of those who have not,
therefore, it will be only proper that I should enter into some account
of it. And this is indeed the more necessary, as with the hope of
enlisting public sympathy in behalf of the inhabitants, I design here
to give a history of the calamitous events which have so lately occurred
within its limits. No one who knows me will doubt that the duty