Title: The Gold-Bug and Other Tales (Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / MS. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum / Sphinx / Tell-Tale Heart)
Description: [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
Gold-Bug
MS. Found in a Bottle
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
Sphinx
[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, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns
Places: Toledo
People: Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Father Time