Selected Tales

Description:

[Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) Colloquy of M0nos and Una [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) Domain of Arnheiu Duc de L'omelette [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 How to Write a Blackwood Article [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) [Island of the Fay](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645993W) Ligeia [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Ms. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Mystery of Marie Rogit Oval Portrait [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Purloined Letter](https://openlibraryorg/works/OL41065W) [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) [Von Kempelen and His Discovery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25111544W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)

subjects: short stories,  aristocracy,  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,  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,  self-destructive behavior,  metaphors,  coroners,  hanging,  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 fiction (fictional works by one author)

People: William Wilson,  Von Kempelen,  Lieutenant Maury,  Father Time,  Prince Prospero,  Marmontel,  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,  England,  Eton College,  Oxford,  University of Oxford,  Rome

Times: Carnival