Title: Selected Tales of Mystery (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Metzengerstein / Pit and the Pendulum / William Wilson)
Description: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Eleonora](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14937980W)	
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Gold Bug	
Ligeia	
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Metzengerstein	
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
Subjects: short stories, aristocracy, American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, horror, Horror stories, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, gothic fiction, Hematidrosis, Horror fiction, Horror tales, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Classic Literature, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile fiction, Revenge
Places: Valley of the Many-Colored Grass, Heaven, Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome
People: William Wilson, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Eleonora, Ermengarde, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred
Time periods: Carnival