Poe's 'philosophy of furniture' and the aesthetics of fictional design / C.T. Walters -- Race, pirates, and intellect : a reading of Poe's "The gold-bug" / John F. Jebb -- Storytelling, narrative authority, and death in 'The thousand and second tale of Scheherazade' / James M. Hutchisson -- The man in the text : desire, masculinity, and the development of Poe's detective fiction / Peter Goodwin -- Gothic displacements : Poe's south in Politian / Amy C. Branam -- Poe in the ragged mountains : environmental history and romantic aesthetics / Daniel J. Philippon -- 'King pest' and 'The tales of the Folio Club' / Benjamin F. Fisher -- Understanding 'Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling' / Kevin J. Hayes -- 'Eyes which behold' : Poe's 'Domain of Arnheim' and the science of vision / Laura Saltz -- 'A species of literature almost beneath contempt' : Edgar Allan Poe and the world of literary competitions / Leon Jackson -- Poe's early criticism of American fiction : the Southern literary messenger and the fiction of Robert Montgomery Bird / Justin R. Wert -- Mad ravings or sound thinking? : the philosophy of composition and Poe's parodic raven / Dennis W. Eddings.