Title: The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Description: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W)
Balloon Hoax
[Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W)
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[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)
Ligeia
Man That Was Used Up
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Morella
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Oval Portrait
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibraryorg/works/OL41065W)
[Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W)
Sphinx
System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
[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, silence, 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, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation, Mystery and detective stories, monograms
Places: Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo, Libya, Hebrides, Rome, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford
People: William Wilson, Demon, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Egaeus, Berenice, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus