Title: Tales of Mystery and Imagination [23 stories]
Description: Contains:
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
Gold-Bug
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
Ligeia
Loss of Breath
Man of the Crowd
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
MS. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Mystery of Marie Roget
Oblong Box
Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
Shadow
[Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W)
Some Words with a Mummy
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
Subjects: self-destructive behavior, metaphors, coroners, hanging, short stories, 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, silence, 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, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, American detective and mystery stories, American children's stories
Places: Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo, Libya, Hebrides, Rome
People: Demon, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Ernest Valdemar, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Time periods: Carnival