Title: Tales of Horror (Berenice / Black Cat / Descent into the Maelstrom / Devil in the Belfry / Eleonora / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Imp of the Perverse / Ligeia / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Metzengerstein / Morella / MS. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Never Bet the Devil Your Head / Oblong Box / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Purloined Letter / Some Words with a Mummy / Sphinx / Tale of the Ragged Mountains / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Description: [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W)
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
Devil in the Belfry
[Eleonora](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14937980W)
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
Ligeia
Man of the Crowd
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Metzengerstein
Morella
MS. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Oblong Box
Oval Portrait
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
Some Words with a Mummy
Sphinx
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
The Fall of the House of Usher
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
Subjects: short stories, aristocracy, 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, 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, self-destructive behavior, metaphors, coronors, hanging, burial vaults, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation, Mystery and detective stories, monograms
Places: Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome
People: William Wilson, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Egaeus, Berenice, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus