Title: Selected Tales
Description: MS. Found in a Ik)ttle
[Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W)
Morella
Ligeia
The Man that was Used Up
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
The Man of the Crowd
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
[Eleonora](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14937980W)
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
The Mystery of Marie Roget
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
The Gold-Bug
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Domain of Arnheim](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645889W)
Hop-Frog
[Von Kempelen and His Discovery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25111544W)
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, 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, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Revenge, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author), Long Now Manual for Civilization
Places: Paris, Valley of the Many-Colored Grass, Heaven, Toledo, England, Eton College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Rome
People: William Wilson, Von Kempelen, Lieutenant Maury, Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Eleonora, Ermengarde, Mr. Ellison, Mrs. Ellison, Seabright Ellison, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Egaeus, Berenice, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Time periods: Carnival