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Introduction: Types of anthologies and types of Poe / Margarida Vale de Gato and Emron Esplin -- Deciding who belongs and where they fit: (proto)anthologies of the 1840s. Anthology, relational aesthetics, and the (dis)unity of affect: Poe collects people and Griswold frames Poe / Jana L. Argersinger -- Poe as anthologizer of himself / Harry Lee Poe -- The "flower-gemmed" story: gift book tradition and Poe's "Eleonora" / Alexandra Urakova -- Assembling Poe in English: editors, editions, and the college anthology. Selecting for posterity: Poe's early editors and the battle for a definitive collection / Jeffrey A. Savoye -- The scholars' Poe(s): landmark editions of the twentieth century / Travis Montgomery -- Poe anthologies and editions in Britain: 1852-1914 / Bonnie Shannon McMullen -- Repatriating Poe: revising the Penguin Portable / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Textbook Poe: college American literature anthologies / Scott Peeples -- Setting tones and moods: genre anthologies and audiobooks. Usher II: Poe, anthologies, and the rise of science fiction / Stephen Rachman -- Edgar Allan Poe and the codifying and anthologizing of detective fiction / John Gruesser -- "'I have spoken both of 'sound' and of 'voice''': an analysis of Doug Bradley's Spinechillers audio anthology and the works of Edgar Allan Poe / Michelle Kay Hansen -- Poe's poetry anthologized / Philip Edward Phillips -- Wor(l)ding Poe abroad: anthologizers, editors, illustrators, and translators. Startling restitutions, significant partialities: the French come to the rescue of Edgar Allan Poe / Margarida Vale de Gato -- Popular Poe anthologies in the UK and France / Christopher Rollason -- Under the Spanish eye: illustrated Poe editions in Spain / Fernando González-Moreno and Margarita Rigal-Aragón -- A century of terror, ratiocination, and the supernatural: Poe's fiction in Argentina from Carlos Olivera to Julio Cortázar / Emron Esplin -- Editing and anthologizing Poe in Japan / Takayuki Tatsumi.