"Metzengerstein: A Tale in Imitation of the German" is a short story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, his first to see print. It was first published in the pages of Philadelphia's Saturday Courier magazine, in 1832. The story follows the young Frederick, the last of the Metzengerstein family, who carries on a long-standing feud with the Berlifitzing family. Suspected of causing a fire that kills the Berlifitzing family patriarch, Frederick becomes intrigued with a previously unnoticed and untamed horse. Metzengerstein is punished for his cruelty when his own home catches fire and the horse carries him into the flame. Part of a Latin hexameter by Martin Luther serves as the story's epigraph: Pestis eram vivus—moriens tua mors ero.
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- contained in Bizarre and Arabesque: A New Anthology of Tales, Poems and Prosecollection
- contained in Classic Tales of Horrorcollection
- contained in Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in Descent Into the Maelströmcollection
- contained in Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in Edgar Allan Poe: A Collection of Storiescollection
- contained in Edgar Allan Poe and the Philadelphia Saturday Courier: Facsimile Reproductions of the First Texts of Poe's Earliest Tales and "Raising the Wind"collection
- contained in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poemscollection
- contained in Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Talescollection
- contained in Edgar Allan Poe Short Storiescollection
- contained in Fantastic Talescollection
- contained in Forty-Two Talescollection
- contained in Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in Poe After Dark: 18 Tales of Mystery, Madness, and the Macabrecollection
- contained in Selected Poetry and Prose of Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in Selected Talescollection
- contained in Selected Tales of Mysterycollection
- contained in Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe: Vol. VIIcollection
- contained in Stories: Twenty-Eight Thrilling Talescollection
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- contained in Tales of Edgar Allan Poecollection
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- contained in Tales of Mystery & Imaginationcollection
- contained in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesquecollection
- contained in Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in Terrifying Ghosts Short Storiesanthology
- contained in The Annotated Poecollection
- contained in The Annotated Tales of Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in The Assignation and Other Talescollection
- contained in The Best Known Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume: Poems, Tales, Essays, Criticismscollection
- contained in The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Storiescollection
- contained in The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe by Sattycollection
- contained in The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2anthology
- contained in The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Storiescollection
- contained in The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 7collection
- contained in The Third Macabre Megapackanthology
- contained in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume: Complete Tales and Poemscollection
- contained in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume: Poems, Tales, Essays, Criticisms with New Notescollection
- contained in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 4 (Raven Edition)collection
- contained in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poecollection
- contained in Visions of Poecollection
- contained in Weird Talesanthology
- contained in Works of Edgar Allan Poeomnibus