Title: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Vol. II (Assignation / Balloon-Hoax / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / Masque of the Red Death / Mesmeric Revelation / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart / Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade / Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall / Von Kempelen and His Discovery)
Description: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W)
Balloon-Hoax
[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
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
[Island of the Fay](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645993W)
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
[Mesmeric Revelation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646037W)
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Mystery of Marie Roget
Oval Portrait
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
[Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646039W)
Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
[Von Kempelen and His Discovery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25111544W)
Subjects: satire, short stories, 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, premature burial, catalepsy, Taphophobia, crypts, phobias, unconsciousness, berths, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, mesmerism, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, self-destructive behavior, metaphors, coronors, hanging, suspense, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monograms
Places: Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo, Europe
People: Von Kempelen, Lieutenant Maury, Sinbad the Sailor, Scheherazade, Father Time, Mr. Vankirk, Prince Prospero, Marmontel, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Ernest Valdemar, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Time periods: Carnival