Edgar Allan Poe

 William Wilson
William was a student at school. His life was goin well: he had lots of friends there, and he was proud of himself until he came to his life. His name was also William Wilson, but he never talked to anyone, he used to dress like him (they were classmates), and he used to imitate him, using a really similar voice in whisper. That always annoyed him. A few years later, he went tocollege far away from there, trying to get rid of him, and in a way he made it, because he had no news about him for years. But a couple of years later, someone was standing still on the oposite site of the road, watching him. It was him, as you could imagine. His clothes were exactly like his. Then he crossed the road, and took him by the arm: -William Wilson!- he whispered, and in amoment he was gone. That brought thousands of memories to his mind, and for a few moths he could not stop thinking about it. A few years after that, he had become a heavy drinker, trying to get rid of that thought, all in vain; but one night when he was walking on a dark street, he heard that whisper near his ear again. Of course, it was him, and he was dressed exactly like him, and they both wore swords. Heturned arround and drawed his sword. -“Devil! You shall trouble me no longer! Draw your sword!” -He said, and his namesake prepared to defend himself. In a few minutes Will's sword went through his namesake's chest with terrible anger again and again. Once the dead body was on the floor his face turned very pale, and started to change all the small details to end up getting his own face; WilliamWilson's face. Between the feeling of anger, proudness, panic, and surprise, this words came out from his own mouth, like someone was using his voice to express himself: -“You have conquered, and I yield. But from now on you also are dead; -dead to the world, to heaven, and to hope! You were a part of me. In my death, see by this body which is your own how surely you have murdered yourself.”
 TheGold Bug
Mr. William Legrand was my friend since a long time ago. Some misfortunes have made him go from richness to poornes in a short period of time. Now he lived in a small island in South Carolina, and he asked me to go and see him for a couple of days. Already there he talked to me about a strange kind of bug he found the other day walking in the forest. He said he didn't have it with him,he lent it to a friend of him that lived not too far away from there, so he drew it for me. That drawing looked to me like a skull, as I told him a little later. He got annoyed because he thought I was making fun of his drawing skill, so, angrily he threw it to the fire. Just before the paper got between the flames, something in it attracted my friend's attention, and he picked it up violently andkept it away form the flames. Then he had another look to it, and placed it inside an envelope, and locked it in the drawer. A couple of months later, he sent Jupiter, his servant, to look for me again. Jupiter said that his boss was ill because of a bite of the strange bug, and he wanted me to go there in order to solve “some business of the highest importance”. So did I. I got there withJupiter, that was carrying three new spades he just bought in the city, at about three o'clock in the afternoon. And I could see a terribly pale faced man that was suposed to be my old friend. We then rolled on a journey to the hills. After a two hours walk, we arrived at a big and old tree that seemed to be the biggest in that forest. Then Jupiter was asked to climb the tree with the bug in one hand.The bug was attached to a long string. Jupiter got up on the tree and found an old skull. As his master said, he dropped the bug through the “left eye” of the skull. Legrand marked the zone arround the insect on the ground and when the servant went down again, they all started to dig a big hole. We spent two hours digging until the boss realized that there was nothing in there. -But wait!- He...