Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Description:

Contains: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) Gold-Bug Ligeia Loss of Breath Man of the Crowd [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) MS. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Mystery of Marie Roget Oblong Box Oval Portrait Pit and the Pendulum [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) Shadow [Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W) Some Words with a Mummy [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)

subjects: American Horror tales,  American literature,  Children's fiction,  Classic Literature,  Crime,  Crime fiction,  Detective and mystery stories,  Fiction,  first-person narrative,  Gothic fiction,  Homicide,  Horror,  Horror fiction,  Horror stories,  Horror tales,  Hyperesthesia,  Juvenile fiction,  Murder,  short stories,  silence,  premature burial,  catalepsy,  Taphophobia,  crypts,  phobias,  unconsciousness,  berths,  American fiction,  American Short stories,  fear,  pendulums,  Spanish Inquisition,  abbeys,  daggers,  Hematidrosis,  Juvenile audience,  masquerade balls,  nobility,  plagues,  shrouds,  burial vaults,  dragons,  hermitages,  heroic romances,  hysteria,  knights,  maces,  psychogenic death,  tarns,  Mesmerism,  suspense,  hoaxes,  narration,  pseudoscience,  Hypnagogia,  animal magnetism,  hypnotism,  tuberculosis,  embedded narrative,  mountaineering,  whirlpools,  vortex,  Ratiocination,  Revenge,  cats,  short story,  unreliable narrators,  self-hatred,  gallows,  Mystery and detective stories,  monograms,  American detective and mystery stories,  American children's stories,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, mystery & detective, general

People: Demon,  Father Time,  Prince Prospero,  Roderick Usher,  Madeline Usher,  Ethelred,  Ernest Valdemar,  Jonas Danilssønn Ramus,  Montresor,  Fortunato,  Luchresi,  Lady Fortunato,  C. Auguste Dupin,  Minister D—,  Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

Places: Paris,  Lofoten,  Norway,  Toledo,  Libya,  Hebrides,  Rome

Times: Carnival