What is the best Edgar Allan Poe story?

Detective puzzles, buried-alive nightmares and one very talkative heart under the floor. All of them were in print before 1850.

1. 1
   The Tell-Tale Heart

   A murderer insists he is sane while the victim's heart beats under the floorboards (1843).
   1000pts
2. 2
   The Cask of Amontillado

   Montresor lures Fortunato into the catacombs with the promise of rare sherry (1846).
   622pts
3. 3
   The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

   A dying man is mesmerized at the moment of death, with ghastly results (1845).
   622pts
4. 4
   The Purloined Letter

   Dupin finds a stolen letter hidden in plain sight (1844).
   551pts
5. 5
   Hop-Frog

   A jester takes fiery revenge on a cruel king at a masquerade (1849).
   551pts
6. 6
   The Gold-Bug

   A cipher and a beetle lead to Captain Kidd's buried treasure (1843).
   466pts
7. 7
   The Black Cat

   A drunkard's cruelty to his cat leads to a wall that gives him away (1843).
   363pts
8. 8
   Ligeia

   A widower's dead first wife seems to return through his second (1838).
   363pts
9. 9
   William Wilson

   A man is shadowed all his life by a double with his own name (1839).
   363pts
10. 10
    The Premature Burial

    A catalepsy sufferer is obsessed with being buried alive (1844).
    363pts
11. 11
    A Descent into the Maelström

    A Norwegian fisherman survives a giant whirlpool by reasoning (1841).
    0pts
12. 12
    The Fall of the House of Usher

    A visit to the decaying Usher mansion ends with the house splitting apart (1839).
    0pts
13. 13
    The Masque of the Red Death

    Prince Prospero's sealed masquerade cannot keep a plague outside (1842).
    0pts
14. 14
    The Pit and the Pendulum

    A prisoner of the Inquisition watches a blade swing lower each minute (1842).
    0pts
15. 15
    The Murders in the Rue Morgue

    C. Auguste Dupin solves a locked-room double murder in the first modern detective story (1841).
    0pts

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