Title: The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Balloon-Hoax / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Malestrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue	 / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart)
Description: Balloon-Hoax
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Gold-Bug
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Murders in the Rue Morgue
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
[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, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, American detective and mystery stories, fantasy fiction, English short stories
Places: Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo
People: Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Time periods: Carnival