"Morella" is a short story in the Gothic horror genre by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe.

An unnamed narrator marries Morella, a woman with great scholarly knowledge who delves into studies of the German philosophers Fichte and Schelling, dealing with the question of identity.

As the daughter gets older the narrator notices she bears an uncanny resemblance to her mother, but he refuses to give the child a name.

Her father decides to have her baptized to release any evil from her, but this event brings the mother's soul back into her daughter.

It is the name of the Venerable Mother Juliana Morell (1595–1653), who was the fourth Grace and tenth Muse in a poem by poet Lope de Vega.

[3] Poe features dead or dying women in many of his tales (see also "Berenice", "Ligeia") and resurrection or communication from beyond the grave (see "Eleonora", "The Fall of the House of Usher").