Valdemar - The black cat - The fall of the House of Usher - Silence: a fable - The masque of the Red Death - The cask of Amontillado - The imp of the perverse - The island of the Fay - The assignation - The pit and the pendulum - The premature burial - The domain of Arnheim - Landor's cottage - William Wilson - The tell-tale heart - Berenice - Eleonora. Literature Network Edgar Allan Poe The Imp of the Perverse The Imp of the Perverse IN THE consideration of the faculties and impulses - of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which, although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, irreducible sentiment, has been equally. This feeling of safety anticipates the narrator's feeling in The Imp of the Perverse, and here too Poe works with a simple phenomenon of reversal.

The purloined letter - The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherezade - A descent into the Maelström - Von Kempelen and his discovery - Mesmeric revelation - The facts in the case of M. The phrase has a long history in literature, and was popularized (and perhaps coined) by Edgar Allan Poe in his short story, 'The Imp of the Perverse'.

Imp of the perverse edgar allan poe