Title: The Black Cat and Other Stories (Black Cat / Fall of the House of Usher / Imp of the Perverse / Masque of the Red Death / Pit and the Pendulum / William Wilson)
Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[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, self-destructive behavior, metaphors, coroners, hanging, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, cats, short story, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows
Places: Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome
People: Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Prince Prospero, Father Time, William Wilson