The gold-bug and other tales

Description:

Adventure of One Hans Pfaal Angel of the Odd Balloon Hoax [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) Business Man [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 [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) [Island of the Fay](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645993W) Loss of Breath Man That Was Used Up [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Mellonta Tauta [Mesmeric Revelation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646037W) Ms. Found in a Bottle Oval Portrait [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646039W) [Von Kempelen and His Discovery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25111544W)

subjects: satire,  short stories,  horror,  premature burial,  catalepsy,  Taphophobia,  crypts,  phobias,  unconsciousness,  berths,  American fiction,  American Horror tales,  American literature,  American Short stories,  Children's fiction,  fear,  Fiction,  Horror stories,  pendulums,  Spanish Inquisition,  mesmerism,  abbeys,  daggers,  gothic fiction,  Hematidrosis,  Horror fiction,  Horror tales,  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,  embedded narrative,  mountaineering,  whirlpools,  vortex,  Ratiocination,  cats,  short story,  first-person narrative,  unreliable narrators,  self-hatred,  gallows

People: Von Kempelen,  Lieutenant Maury,  Sinbad the Sailor,  Scheherazade,  Father Time,  Mr. Vankirk,  Jonas Danilssønn Ramus,  Roderick Usher,  Madeline Usher,  Ethelred,  Marmontel,  Prince Prospero

Places: Lofoten,  Norway,  Toledo,  Europe