Podcast:The HorrorBabble Podcast Published On: Tue Jul 27 2021 Description: "The Imp of the Perverse" is a short story by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. Beginning as an essay, it discusses the narrator's self-destructive impulses, embodied as the symbolic metaphor of The Imp of the Perverse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices