Title: Selected Tales
Description: [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W)
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
Colloquy of Monos and Una
Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
[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
Hop-Frog
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
[Island of the Fay](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645993W)
Ligeia
Man of the Crowd
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Morella
MS. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Oval Portrait
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibraryorg/works/OL41065W)
Shadow
[Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W)
Sphinx
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
Unparalleied Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
[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, silence, 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, catalepsy, 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, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, American Fantasy fiction, American Detective and mystery stories
Places: Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo, Libya, Hebrides, Rome, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford
People: William Wilson, Demon, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Marmontel, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Ernest Valdemar, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Egaeus, Berenice, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Time periods: Carnival