Title: Tales of Mystery and Terror (Black Cat / Descent into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Masque of the Red Death / MS. Found in a Bottle / Oblong Box / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words With a Mummy / Sphinx / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
First published: October 1, 1990
Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
Hop-Frog
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
MS. Found in a Bottle
Oblong Box
Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
Some Words With a Mummy
Sphinx
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
[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, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, cats, short story, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, American Detective and mystery stories, Mystery and detective stories, Classic Literature, Suspense, Literature, Fiction, short stories (single author), Poe, edgar allan, 1809-1849, Authors, american, Children's stories, American, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Homicide, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Places: Lofoten, Norway, Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome
People: William Wilson, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Prince Prospero, Father Time