Tales of Terror

Description:

[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) / by E.A. Poe -- The signal man / by C. Dickens -- The mummy's foot / by T. Gautier -- Markheim -- The body snatcher / by R.L. Stevenson -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / by A. Bierce -- What was it? / by F. O'Brien.

subjects: Horror fiction,  American horror tales,  English horror tales,  Fiction,  History,  Classic Literature,  Short Stories,  Juvenile audience,  civil war,  hanging,  American Civil War,  Confederate States of America,  Union,  Mesmerism,  short story,  suspense,  horror,  hoaxes,  narration,  pseudoscience,  Hypnagogia,  animal magnetism,  hypnotism,  tuberculosis,  Children's fiction,  Crime,  Detective and mystery stories,  Horror stories,  Juvenile fiction,  Revenge,  burial vaults,  catalepsy,  dragons,  gothic fiction,  hermitages,  heroic romances,  horror tales,  hysteria,  knights,  maces,  psychogenic death,  tarns,  American literature,  Crime fiction,  Crime in fiction,  first-person narrative,  Gothic fiction (literary genre),  Homicide,  Hyperesthesia,  Murder,  Murder in fiction,  plagues,  abbeys,  nobility,  Hematidrosis,  masquerade balls,  shrouds,  daggers,  American fiction

People: Peyton Farquhar,  Ernest Valdemar,  Montresor,  Fortunato,  Luchresi,  Lady Fortunato,  Roderick Usher,  Madeline Usher,  Ethelred,  Prince Prospero

Places: United States,  Alabama,  Owl Creek Bridge

Times: 1861-65,  Carnival