Title: Tales of Poe (Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / Some Words with a Mummy / Sphinx / William Wilson)
Description: [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Murders in the Rue Morgue
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
Some Words with a Mummy
Sphinx
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
Subjects: short stories, aristocracy, American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, horror, Horror stories, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Classic Literature, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile fiction, Revenge, Mystery and detective stories, monograms
Places: Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome
People: William Wilson, Father Time, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Time periods: Carnival