Title: Cuentos de Horror (Cask of Amontillado / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart)
First published: December 1999
Description: [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
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)
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
Subjects: 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, short stories, premature burial, catalepsy, Taphophobia, crypts, phobias, unconsciousness, berths, American fiction, American Short stories, fear, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, burial vaults, dragons, hermitages, heroic romances, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, Mesmerism, suspense, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, Revenge
Places: Toledo
People: Father Time, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato, Ernest Valdemar, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred
Time periods: Carnival