Title: Tales (Black Cat / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmion / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Lionizing / Man of the Crowd / Mesmeric Revelation / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Purloined Letter)
First published: December 1979
Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
Colloquy of Monos and Una
Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Gold-Bug
Lionizing
Man of the Crowd
[Mesmeric Revelation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646037W)
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Mystery of Marie Roget
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
Subjects: mesmerism, American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, Fiction, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, short stories, tarns, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, horror fiction, cats, Children's fiction, short story, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monograms
Places: Paris, Lofoten, Norway
People: Mr. Vankirk, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred