Title: Short Stories (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Pit and the Pendulum)
Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Pit and the Pendulum
Subjects: American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, horror, short stories, Horror stories, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, horror fiction, cats, short story, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns
Places: Toledo
People: Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Father Time