Title: Short Stories (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Raven / Tell-Tale Heart)
Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
Cask of Amontillado
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Ligeia
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
Raven
Tell-Tale Heart
Subjects: horror, short stories, premature burial, catalepsy, Taphophobia, crypts, phobias, unconsciousness, berths, American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, Horror stories, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, gothic fiction, Hematidrosis, Horror fiction, Horror tales, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, cats, short story, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mesmerism, suspense, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis
Places: Toledo
People: Ernest Valdemar, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Prince Prospero, Father Time