Title: Tales of Mystery and Imagination [25 stories]
First published: June 1985
Description: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W)
[Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
[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)
Gold Bug
Hop Frog
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
King Pest
Ligeia
Man of the Crowd
Marella
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Metzengerstein
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Mystery of Marie Roget
Oval Portrait
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibraryorg/works/OL41065W)
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
[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, coroners, hanging, burial vaults, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Mesmerism, suspense, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Revenge, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation, Mystery and detective stories, monograms
Places: Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Valley of the Many-Colored Grass, Heaven, Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome
People: William Wilson, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Ernest Valdemar, Eleonora, Ermengarde, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Egaeus, Berenice, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Time periods: Carnival