Title: The Collected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
First published: August 1, 2000
Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Gold-Bug
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Murders in the Rue Morgue
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
Subjects: short story, self-destructive behavior, metaphors, coroners, hanging, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Horror stories, Juvenile fiction, Revenge, American Horror tales, American literature, Crime fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, 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, burial vaults, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Mesmerism, suspense, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, cats, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, Large type books, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Places: Paris, Toledo
People: Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Father Time, Prince Prospero, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Ernest Valdemar, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred
Time periods: Carnival