Title: Le chat noir et autres récits fantastiques (Angel of the Odd / Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Mesmeric Revelation / Metzengerstein / Morella / MS. Found in a Bottle / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Silence / System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether / Tale of the Ragged Mountains / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Description: Contains:
Angel of the Odd
[Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W)
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
Ligeia
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
[Mesmeric Revelation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646037W)
Metzengerstein
Morella
MS. Found in a Bottle
Oval Portrait
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W)
System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
[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, mesmerism, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, suspense, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation
Places: Toledo, Libya, Hebrides, Rome, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford
People: William Wilson, Demon, Father Time, Mr. Vankirk, Prince Prospero, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Egaeus, Berenice, Ernest Valdemar, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred
Time periods: Carnival