Title: Terrifying Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (Cask of the Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / Tell Tale Heart)
Description: [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)
Murders in the Rue Morgue
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
[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, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Revenge, Mystery and detective stories, monograms
Places: Paris, Toledo
People: Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Time periods: Carnival