Title: Mystery Tales (Black Cat / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Purloined Letter / William Wilson)
Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Gold-Bug	
Ligeia	
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Murders in the Rue Morgue	
Oval Portrait	
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
Subjects: short stories, aristocracy, abbeys, American fiction, American horror tales, Children's fiction, daggers, Fiction, gothic fiction, Hematidrosis, horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, cats, short story, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monograms
Places: Paris, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome
People: William Wilson, Prince Prospero, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred