Author:  Edgar Allan Poe
Online reading time: 20 minutes
Published:  1845
Original language:  English
Type:  Story , Novel
Literary Genre: Horror, Fiction, Mystic Romance , Psychological Romance

The narrator, stricken with a serious illness, finds himself in an abandoned mansion somewhere in Italy. He tries to relieve his pain with opium. A painting in the castle depicting a beautiful young woman makes a strong impression on him, and he decides to find out the story of its creation. Who is depicted in this painting? And why is the portrait so impressive to the narrator?