Title: Le chat noir et autres nouvelles (Black Cat / Fall of the House of Usher / Masque of the Red Death / Metzengerstein / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether / Tell-Tale Heart)
Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Metzengerstein
Oval Portrait
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
[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, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Fantastique, Nouvelles
Places: Toledo
People: Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Prince Prospero, Father Time