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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
''Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque'' is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.
==Publication==
It was published by the Philadelphia firm Lea & Blanchard and released in two volumes. The publisher was willing to print the anthology based on the recent success of Poe's story "The Fall of the House of Usher". Even so, Lea & Blanchard would not pay Poe any royalties; his only payment was 20 free copies.〔Meyers, Jeffrey. ''Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy''. Cooper Square Press, 1992. p. 113〕 Poe had sought Washington Irving to endorse the book, writing to him, "If I could be permitted to add ''even a word or two'' from yourself... ''my fortune would be made''".〔Neimeyer, Mark. "Poe and Popular Culture," collected in ''The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe''. Cambridge University Press, 2002. p. 207. ISBN 0-521-79727-6〕
In his preface, Poe wrote the now-famous quote defending himself from the criticism that his tales were part of "Germanism". He wrote, "If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany but of the soul".
The collection was dedicated to Colonel William Drayton, anonymous author of ''The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists'' (Philadelphia: H. Manly, 1836),〔http://www.eapoe.org/pstudies/ps1970/p1974201.htm〕 whom Poe likely met while stationed in Charleston, South Carolina; when Drayton moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Poe continued to correspond with him.〔Quinn, Arthur Hobson. ''Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography''. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. p. 129. ISBN 0-8018-5730-9〕 Drayton was a former member of Congress turned judge and may have subsidized the book's publication.〔
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