Title: Tales (Black Cat / Facts in the Case of M Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum)
Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Gold Bug
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Murders in the Rue Morgue
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
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, Mesmerism, suspense, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, cats, short story, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows
Places: Toledo
People: Ernest Valdemar, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Prince Prospero, Father Time