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Books Set in the Carnival

Fiction set in the Carnival, mostly horror, circus & carnival and gothic fiction. The most-read are The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes (1903), The Cask of Amontillado (1846) and Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1966).

This list collects 106 books in this collection by 18 authors, published between 1846 and 2021. 2 are free to read and 4 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes
Edgar Allan Poe
1903
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The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe
1846★ 4.2
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
1966★ 4.5
Tales of Mystery and Imagination [29 stories]
Edgar Allan Poe
1902
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories]
Edgar Allan Poe
1960★ 4.1
40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz
2021
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [21 stories, 34 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
1940
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer
1952
Horror Stories
Susan Price, Algernon Blackwood
1995
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
Edgar Allan Poe
1980★ 4.3
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
2010
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe [68 stories, 31 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
1985
21 Great Stories
Abraham Harold Lass, Norma L. Tasman
1969
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
Editors of Readers Digest, Arthur Conan Doyle
1982
Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires (Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmi / Devil in the Belfry / Fall of the House of Usher / Four Beasts in One / Hop-Frog / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / King Pest / Lionizing / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Power of Words / Shadow / Silence / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire
Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires (Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmi / Devil in the Belfry / Fall of the House of Usher / Four Beasts in One / Hop-Frog / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / King Pest / Lionizing / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Power of Words / Shadow / Silence / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire
1857
Short Stories (Cask of Amontillado / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
1998★ 4.0
Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition
Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz
2003
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [67 stories, 52 poems, 4 essays]
Edgar Allan Poe
1938
Complete Tales and Poems [71 stories, 64 poems, 1 essay]
Edgar Allan Poe
1992
Eight Tales of Terror (Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Imp of the Perverse / Ligeia / Mask of the Red Death / MS. Found in a Bottle / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
1974
In the Shadow of the Master
Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Connelly
2008
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
1944
Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [34 stories, 17 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe, Benjamin F Fisher
2004★ 4.8
The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [73 stories, 48 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
1985
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood
2009
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The Personal Poe Collection (Annabel Lee / Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Hop-Frog / Masque of the Red Death / Pit and the Pendulum / Raven / System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
2020
The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood
2002
Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, David Galloway
1967
Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson
1970
The Short Story
Beverly Lawn, Nathaniel Hawthorne
1987
The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
2015
Great American Short Stories
Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne
1990
Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
Charles H. Bohner, Alice Adams
1989
The Story and its Writer -- Third Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
1991
Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [adaptation]
Edgar Allan Poe
2000
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Twelve Creepy Tales [11 stories, 1 poem]
Edgar Allan Poe
2012
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Six Creepy Stories (Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Masque of the Red Death / Raven / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
2013
The Collected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
2000
The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe in Four Volumes - I - Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
1857
Selected Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
1956
Tales of Terror and Fantasy (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
1971
The Selected Poetry and Prose of Edgar Allan Poe [32 stories, 42 poems, 11 essays]
Edgar Allan Poe
1931
Poe (Assignation / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Ms Found in a Bottle)
Edgar Allan Poe
1897
Tales of Horror and Suspense (Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
1987
The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Balloon-Hoax / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Malestrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
2005
The Best Known Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
1927
Great Tales of Terror (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Pit and the Pendulum)
Edgar Allan Poe
1980
The Book of the Dead
Alan K. Russell, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
1986

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