Title: The Black Cat (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Masque of the Red Death / 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 / William Wilson)
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)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
Gold-Bug
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
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
Tell-Tale Heart
William Wilson
Subjects: horror, short stories, premature burial, catalepsy, Taphophobia, crypts, phobias, unconsciousness, berths, American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, Horror stories, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, gothic fiction, Hematidrosis, Horror fiction, Horror tales, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Classic Literature, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile fiction, Revenge, cats, short story, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Ying yu, Yu yan du wu, Xiao shuo ji, Duan pian xiao shuo
Places: Jin dai, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo
People: Father Time, Prince Prospero, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred
Time periods: Carnival, Meiguo