Title: Selected Short Stories (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent into the Maelstrom / Devil in the Belfry / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Hop-Frog / Ligeia / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / Tell-tale Heart / William Wilson)
Description: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W)
[Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W)
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
Devil in the Belfry
[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
Hop-Frog
Ligeia
Man of the Crowd
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
[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, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, 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, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation, Mystery and detective stories, monograms
Places: Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome
People: William Wilson, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Egaeus, Berenice, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus