Title: Tales of Mystery and Imagination [12 stories]
Description: [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
[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
Mystery of Marie Roget
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
Some Words with a Mummy
Spectacles
Subjects: American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, Fiction, horror, short stories, Horror stories, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, abbeys, daggers, gothic fiction, Hematidrosis, Horror fiction, Horror tales, Juvenile audience, masquerade balls, nobility, plagues, shrouds, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, Classic Literature, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile fiction, Revenge, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, American Detective and mystery stories
Places: Paris, Lofoten, Norway, Toledo
People: Father Time, Prince Prospero, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred, Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Time periods: Carnival