

An edition of Selections from the Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Silence / William Wilson) (1908)
By Edgar Allan Poe
Publish Date
1920
Publisher
Macmillan Company
Language
eng
Pages
343
Description:
[Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Gold-Bug Ligeia [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Murders in the Rue Morgue Pit and the Pendulum [Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
subjects: short stories, aristocracy, silence, American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, horror, Horror stories, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, gothic fiction, Hematidrosis, Horror fiction, Horror tales, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Classic Literature, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile fiction, Revenge, Literature
People: William Wilson, Demon, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Places: Lofoten, Norway, Toledo, Libya, Hebrides, Rome, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford
Times: Carnival