Mancelos, João de2018-01-032018-01-032002Mancelos, João de. “How to Murder a Young and Beautiful Woman: Death in Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Tales”. Atas do XXI Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos. Org. Ana Maria Lopes et al. Viseu: 2002, APEAA. 415-422. ISBN: 972-8765-02-9.972-8765-02-9http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/4535In Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories there is a morbid obsession with the death of women. It is easy to identify these narratives, since their title corresponds, invariably, to the names of the victims: “Berenice”, “Ligeia”, “Eleonora”, “Annabel Lee”, “Morella”, etc. Uncommon names for stories where the macabre and the improbable play a leading role, and the relationship between the living and the dead is frequently an incestuous one. In this paper, I analyse the aesthetic and biographical reasons behind this phenomenon, resorting to some celebrated stories from the Gothic writer, and to the work of several specialists in Poe’s literary production.engEdgar Allan PoeShort storyWomanDeathconference object