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    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
    From Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry & Tales

    Pen and black ink and watercolor illustration by British artist Arthur Rackham (1867–1939) for “The Oval Portrait” in the 1935 edition of Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe (London: George G. Harrap & Co.). See full image at Christie’s.
    “My dear little wife has been dangerously ill,” Edgar Allan Poe wrote to a friend from his home in Philadelphia on February 3, 1842. Two weeks earlier, nineteen-year-old Virginia Poe was singing when she suddenly began coughing up blood—the first sign of the tuberculosis that would be the cause of her death five years later.

    Poe’s correspondence during the following months alternated between despair and optimism, resignation and denial. “I have scarcely a faint hope of her recovery,” he wrote in one letter during the summer of 1842. “I am happy to say that Virginia’

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    The Oval Portrait

    Short story bygd Edgar Allan Poe

    This article is about the short story. For the American post-hardcore grupp, see The Oval Portrait (band).

    "The Oval Portrait"

    Illustration for "Tales and poems – vol. 2" published in the 1800s

    Original titleLife in Death
    CountryUnited States
    LanguageEnglish
    Genre(s)Horror
    PublisherGraham's Magazine
    Media typePrint (periodical)
    Publication dateApril 1842

    "The Oval Portrait" is a horror short story bygd American writer Edgar Allan Poe, involving the disturbing circumstances of a portrait in a château. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its initial publication in 1842.

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    The tale begins with an injured narrator (the story offers no further explanation of his impairment) seeking refuge in an abandoned mansion in the Apennines. The narrator spends his time admiring the paintings that decorate the strangely shaped room and perusing a

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    The Oval Portrait

      

    by Edgar Allan Poe
    (published 1850)

      

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    THE chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe. To all appearance it had been temporarily and very lately abandoned. We established ourselves in one of the smallest and least sumptuously furnished apartments. It lay in a remote turret of the building. Its decorations were rich, yet tattered and antique. Its walls were hung with tapestry and bedecked with manifold and multiform armorial trophies, together with an unusually great number of very spirited modern paintings in frames of rich golden arabesque. In these paintings, which depended from the walls not only in their main surfaces, but in very many nooks whic