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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “The Angel of the Odd” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 02) Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: “The Angel of the Odd — An Extravaganza” — 1844, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01 “The Angel of the Odd — An Extravaganza” — October 1844 — Columbian Magazine — Text 02  (Mabbott text A) “The Angel of the Odd” — after 1844 — presumed revised copy of Text 02 — Text 03  (There are a few changes recorded in Griswold's text which seem more than editorial in nature. Because the changes are minor, a wholly new manuscript is unlikely. Poe probably marked a copy of the printed form of the tale as it appeared in the Columbian Magazine.) “The Angel of the Odd” — 1856 — WORKS — Text 04  (Mabbott text B) (This is Mabbott's copy-text.) Reprints: There are no recorded reprints of the tale during Poe's lifetime. This story has been included, however, in numerous collections of Poe's works, for which a few prominent examples will be sufficient “The Angel of the Odd” — 1867 — Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, second series (New York: W. J. Widdleton), pp. 455-464 (This collection is extracted from the 1850-1856 edition of Poe's Works. It was reprinted several times.) “The Angel of the Odd” — 1874 — Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms) “The Angel of the Odd” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:145-157) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms) “The Angel of the Odd” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 6: Tales V, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (6:103-115, and 6:282) “The Angle of the Odd” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales & Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (3:1098-1112) “The Angel of the Odd” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 756-765 Associated Material and Special versions: “L'Ange du bizarre” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire) “L'Ange du bizarre” — February 17, 1860 — La Presse “L'Ange du bizarre” — February 1863 — Le Monde illustré “L'Ange du bizarre” — 1865 — Histoires grotesques et sérieuses, Paris: Michel Lévy frères “The Angel of the Odd” — 1963 — This tale was announced as a title of a forthcoming movie to be directed by Roger Corman and produced by American International Pictures. The film was not made (see Smith, p. 144).

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Bibliography: Bandy, William T., "More on 'The Angel of the Odd'," Poe Newsletter (June 1970), 3:22.  (This journal was later renamed Poe Studies / Dark Romanticism.) Gerber, Gerald, "Poe and 'The Manuscript'," Poe Studies (June 1973), 6:27 Gerber, Gerald, "Poe's Odd Angel," Nineteenth-Century Fiction (June 1968), 23:88-93 Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943. Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, "The Origins of 'Poe's Angel of the Odd'," Notes & Queries (Jan. 3, 1931), 160:8 Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. Richard, Claude, "Arrant Bubbles: Poe's 'The Angel of the Odd'," Poe Newsletter (October 1969), 2:46-48.  (This journal was later renamed Poe Studies / Dark Romanticism.) Smith, Don. G., The Poe Cinema, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1999. Wyllie, John Cooke, "A List of the Texts of Poe's Tales," Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.

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