Introduction / Nancy Kilpatrick and Caro Soles -- A rather scholarly view of Edgar Allan Poe, genre crosser [essay] / Uwe Sommerlad -- The gold bug conundrum / Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -- Street of the Dead House / Robert Lopresti -- Naomi / Christopher Rice -- Finding Ulalume / Lisa Morton -- Obsession with the bloodstained door / Rick Chiantaretto -- The lighthouse / Barbara Fradkin -- The masques of Amanda Llado / Thomas S. Roche -- Atargatis / Robert Bose -- The ravens of consequence / Carol Weekes and / Michael Kelly -- Annable Lee / Nancy Holder -- Dinner with Mamalou / J. Madison Davis -- The deave lane / Michael Jecks -- 133 / Richard Christian Matheson -- Afterlife / William F. Nolan, / Jason V. Brock, and / Sunni K. Brock -- The drowning city / Loren Rhoads -- The orange cat / Kelley Armstrong -- The inheritance / Jane Petersen Burfield -- Sympathetic impulses / David McDonald -- Asylum / Colleen Anderson -- The return of Berenice / Tanith Lee -- The eye of heaven / Margaret Atwood -- The opium-eater / David Morrell -- Contributors' bios -- Acknowledgments.