Paul Christian Jones is Professor of English at Ohio University, USA, and the author of two books, Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South (2005) and Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment (2011).

1 Introduction: Poe, Time, and Queerness

2 Resisting Reproduction in Poe's Family Fictions: "Morella," "Ligeia" and "The Fall of the House of Usher"

3 "My Evil Destiny": The Queer Childhood and Queer Adulthood of William Wilson

4 Queer Spaces in "The Masque of the Red Death" and the Dupin Mysteries

5 "Nevermore!": Non-Normative Desire and Queer Temporality in "The Black Cat" and "The Raven"
6 Epilogue: Poe's Queer Afterlife: Revisiting "The Masque of the Red Death" in the AIDS Era