Title: Short Stories (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Tell-Tale Heart)
Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Gold-Bug
Ligeia
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Murders in the Rue Morgue
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[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, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Large type books, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author), Littâerature d'âepouvante amâericaine
Places: Toledo
People: Father Time, Prince Prospero, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred
Time periods: Carnival