Title: Tales (Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / William Wilson)
Description: [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Gold Bug
Ligeia
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Murders in the Rue Morgue
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
Subjects: short stories, aristocracy, American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, horror, Horror stories, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, gothic fiction, Hematidrosis, Horror fiction, Horror tales, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Classic Literature, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile fiction, Revenge, Mystery and detective stories, monograms
Places: Lofoten, Norway, Paris, Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome
People: William Wilson, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Time periods: Carnival