The Imp of the Perverse

Description

"The Imp of the Perverse" is a short story by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. Beginning as an essay, it discusses the narrator's self-destructive impulses, embodied as the symbolic metaphor of The Imp of the Perverse. The narrator describes this spirit as the agent that tempts a person to do things "merely because we feel we should not."

"The Imp of the Perverse" was first published in the July 1845 issue of Graham's Magazine.

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This story also contained in:
Classic Crime Stories
Complete Tales and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe Reader
Historias estraordinarias
Ιστορίες αλλόκοτες
Mysteries and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires
Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires
Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires
Poe Reader
Selected Prose, Poetry, and Eureka
Selected Tales
Selected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Tales
Tales of Mystery and Horror: Vol. III
Tales: Mystery and Occultism
Tales: Mystery and Occultism/Horror and Death
Tales: Volume III
Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Works of Edgar Allan Poe: In Five Volumes: Volume Two
Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Vol. II