Title: The Pit and the Pendulum and Five Other Tales (Cask of Amontillado / Devil in the Belfry / Hop-Frog / Masque of the Red Death / Pit and the Pendulum / Tell-Tale Heart)
Description: [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
Devil in the Belfry
Hop-Frog
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[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, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, Hematidrosis, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, Revenge, American Fantasy fiction
Places: Toledo
People: Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Prince Prospero, Father Time
Time periods: Carnival