Title: Tales of Terror and Fantasy (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart)
First published: 1971
Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[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
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Pit and the Pendulum
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
Subjects: 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, short stories, premature burial, catalepsy, Taphophobia, crypts, phobias, unconsciousness, berths, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, burial vaults, 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, Children's stories, American
Places: Lofoten, Norway, Toledo
People: Father Time, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Ernest Valdemar, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred
Time periods: Carnival