The Imp of The Perverse

"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.

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