type of Islamic art used to decorate walls, especially in mosques. These art styles are known for their complex nature. Poe had used the term "arabesque" in this sense in his essay "The Philosophy of Furniture". Poe may have been using these terms as subdivisions of Gothic art or Gothic architecture in an attempt to establish similar subdivisions in Gothic fiction. For example, the "grotesque" stories are those where the character becomes a caricature or satire, as in "The Man That Was Used Up". The "arabesque" stories focus on a single aspect of a character, often psychological, such as "The Fall of the House of Usher". A distant relative of Poe, modern scholar Harry Lee Poe, wrote that "grotesque" means "horror", which is gory and often disgusting, and "arabesque" means "terror", which forsakes the blood and gore for the sake of frightening the reader. Even so, accurately defining Poe's intentions for the terms is difficult and subdividing his tales into one category or another is even more difficult. Contents Vol. I "Morella" "Lionizing" "William Wilson" "The Man That Was Used Up: A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign" "The Fall of the House of Usher" "The Duc de L'Omelette" "MS. Found in a Bottle" "Bon-Bon" "Shadow: A Parable" "The Devil in the Belfry" "Ligeia" "King Pest: A Tale Containing an Allegory" "The Signora Zenobia" "The Scythe of Time" Vol. II "Epimanes" "Siope" "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" "A Tale of Jerusalem" "Von Jung" "Loss of Breath" "Metzengerstein" "Berenice" "Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling" "The Visionary" "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" "Appendix" (to be appended to the "Hans Pfaall" story). Poe later revised several of these tales and republished them under new titles: "The Visionary" as "The Assignation" "Siope: A Fable" as "Silence: A Fable" "Von Jung" as "Mystification" "The Signora Zenobia" as "How to Write a Blackwood Article" "The Scythe of Time" as "A Predicament" "Epimanes" as "Four Beasts in One: The Homo-Cameleopard" "Shadow: A Fable" as "Shadow: A Parable" References External links Tales of the grotesque and arabesque V1 V2 at Internet Archive Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe 1840 short story collections American short story collections Horror short story collections