Title: 18 Best Stories
Description: Balloon-Hoax
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
Gold-Bug
Man That Was Used Up
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Ms Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
Sphinx
System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
[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, premature burial, catalepsy, Taphophobia, crypts, phobias, unconsciousness, berths, abbeys, American fiction, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Mesmerism, suspense, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, American Short stories, Specimens, Fiction, short stories (single author), American fiction (fictional works by one author)
People: Ernest Valdemar, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Prince Prospero