Title: Old World Romances (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Hop-Frog / Masque of the Red Death / Metzengerstein / Pit and the Pendulum / Tale of the Ragged Mountains)
First published: 2004
Description: Assignation
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
Hop-Frog
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Metzengerstein
Pit and the Pendulum
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
Subjects: American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, horror, short stories, Horror stories, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, Classic Literature, abbeys, daggers, gothic fiction, Hematidrosis, Horror fiction, Horror tales, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds
Places: Toledo
People: Prince Prospero, Father Time