Note: From Sam Moskowitz's story intro in The Man Who Called Himself Poe: "The Valley of Unrest" is much more than the title of one of Edgar Allan Poe's poems, it also is the inspiration of one of the strangest "books" ever published, known in its entirety as The Valley of Unrest, A Book Without a Woman, Edgar Allan Poe, An Oddity Paper, Edited by Douglass Sherley. The copy at hand was published in New York by White, Stokes, and Allen in 1884 (though the book is copyrighted 1883 by Douglass Sherley). ... There are two introductions, both by Douglass Sherley. ... The closeness of the style of the introductions to that of the story leads one to believe that the entire work is not only edited by but also written by Douglass Sherley. Though the early portion is believably factual, the latter part of the story would seem to be fiction. ... The Valley of Unrest is a very strange book, unquestionably extremely rare and not likely to be easily found by students of Poe. For that reason the entire contents follow. ... The f's have been changed to s's for easy reading, otherwise no alterations of any nature ... were made in the text.