Title: Histoires extraordinaires (Balloon-Hoax / Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmi / Descent into the Maelström / Devil in the Belfry / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Four Beasts in One / Gold-Bug / Hop-Frog / King Pest / Ligeia / Lionizing / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Mesmeric Revelation / Metzengerstein / Morella / MS. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Power of Words / Purloined Letter / Shadow / SilenceIsland of the Fay / Some Words with a Mummy / Tale of the Ragged Mountains / Tell-Tale Heart / Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall / William Wilson)
Description: Balloon-Hoax
Berenice
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
Colloquy of Monos and Una
Conversation of Eiros and Charmi
Descent into the Maelström
Devil in the Belfry
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Four Beasts in One
Gold-Bug
Hop-Frog
King Pest
Ligeia
Lionizing
Man of the Crowd
Masque of the Red Death
Mesmeric Revelation
Metzengerstein
Morella
MS. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
Power of Words
Purloined Letter
Shadow
SilenceIsland of the Fay
Some Words with a Mummy
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
Subjects: short stories, aristocracy, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, horror, short stories (single author), Horror stories, pendulums, short story, Spanish Inquisition, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Classic Literature, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile fiction, Revenge, horror fiction, cats, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Crime fiction, Homicide, Hyperesthesia, Murder
Places: Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome
People: William Wilson, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Father Time
Time periods: Carnival