Title: The Black Cat and Other Stories (Black Cat / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Imp of the Perverse / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket / Oblong Box / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart)
First published: November 1996
Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W)
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
Ms. Found in a Bottle
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Oblong Box
[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, Mesmerism, suspense, hoaxes, narration, pseudoscience, Hypnagogia, animal magnetism, hypnotism, tuberculosis, embedded narrative, mountaineering, whirlpools, vortex, Ratiocination, cats, short story, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Readers for new literates, Reading, Intermediate, American fiction (fictional works by one author), self-destructive behavior, metaphors, coronors, hanging
Places: Lofoten, Norway
People: Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, Ernest Valdemar