Title: Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires (Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmi / Devil in the Belfry / Fall of the House of Usher / Four Beasts in One / Hop-Frog / Imp of the Perverse / Island of the Fay / King Pest / Lionizing / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Power of Words / Shadow / Silence / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Description: Contains:
[Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W)
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
Colloquy of Monos and Una
Conversation of Eiros and Charmi
Devil in the Belfry
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Four Beasts in One
Hop-Frog
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
[Island of the Fay](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645993W)
King Pest
Lionizing
Man of the Crowd
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
Power of Words
Shadow
[Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W)
Some Words with a Mummy
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
Subjects: short stories, aristocracy, 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, silence, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, 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, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation, American fantasy fiction
Places: Toledo, Libya, Hebrides, Rome, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford
People: William Wilson, Demon, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Marmontel, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Egaeus, Berenice
Time periods: Carnival