Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Volume 1 & 2

The epithets "Grotesque" and "Arabesque" will be found to indicate
with sufficient precision the prevalent tenor of the tales here
published. But from the fact that, during a period of some two or
three years, I have written five-and-twenty short stories whose
general character may be so briefly defined, it cannot be fairly
inferred--at all events it is not truly inferred--that I have, for
this species of writing, any inordinate, or indeed any peculiar taste
or prepossession. I may have written wi...