Title: Short Stories (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Masque of the Red Death / Pit and the Pendulum / Tell-Tale Heart)
Description: [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)
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Pit and the Pendulum
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
Subjects: American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, horror, short stories, 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, Classic Literature, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile fiction, Revenge, cats, short story, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Juvenile literature, Children's stories, American, Crime fiction, Homicide, Hyperesthesia, Murder
Places: Toledo
People: Father Time, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Prince Prospero
Time periods: Carnival