Title: The Essential Edgar Allan Poe (Cask of Amontillado / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart)
Description: [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)
[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)
[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, 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, Revenge
Places: Toledo
People: Father Time, Prince Prospero, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Ernest Valdemar, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred
Time periods: Carnival