Title: El gato negro y otros cuentos (Black Cat / Fall of the House of Usher / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter)
First published: March 1994
Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[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)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
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, cats, short story, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monograms
Places: Paris, Toledo
People: Father Time, Prince Prospero, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred