Title: The Essential Poe
Subtitle: Tales of Horror and Mystery
Description: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W)
[Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W)
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
[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
Hop-Frog
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
Ligeia
Man of the Crowd
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Metzengerstein
Morella
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Mystery of Marie Roget
Oblong Box
Oval Portrait
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibraryorg/works/OL41065W)
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
Thou Art the Man
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
Subjects: short stories, aristocracy, horror, premature burial, catalepsy, Taphophobia, crypts, phobias, unconsciousness, berths, 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 fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, 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, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation, Mystery and detective stories, monograms
Places: Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome
People: William Wilson, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Egaeus, Berenice, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus