Title: Selected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Description: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W)
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
Ligeia
Man of the Crowd
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale with a Moral
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
Sphinx
System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether
[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, 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, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monograms
Places: Paris, Toledo
People: Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Father Time
Time periods: Carnival