Where should I start with Poe? Never read him before.

I've only read Murders in Rue Morgue and it was kind of shitty.

>Essentials
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Cask of Amontillado
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of Red Death
Murders in the Rue Morgue/Marie Roget/The Purloined Letter
>Poems
The Raven
The Conqueror Worm
Annabel Lee
The Bells
Alone
Ulalune
>Stories I'd Recommend
The Man of the Crowd
William Wilson
King Pest
Ligeia
The Colloquy of Monos and Una
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Mesmeric Revelation
The Black Cat
The Pit and the Pendulum
Descent Into the Maelstrom
The Premature Burial
>Some of his Satires, for fun
Never Bet The Devil Your Head
The Spectacles
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq
Loss of Breath
Xing a Paragrab

Did Poe created monsters and mythos like Lovecraft did or is it more like psychological terror?

>>8814485
his stuff mostly stands independently, lovecraft was closer to a fantasy (or weird fiction as it was called contemporaneously) sort of thing where he had a world pictured in his head that he tried to put to paper.

>>8814406

raven brah

>>8814474
Come on, m. Valdemar is essential too.

>>8814630
It's real good but it's not one of the core stories you need to read, otherwise I would have put Man of the Crowd up there. Plus I wouldn't be able to choose between that and Mesmeric Revelation since they're both generally the same thing told differently.