Title: Seven Tales (Black Cat / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Man of the Crowd / Mesmeric Revelation / Oval Portrait / Purloined Letter)
Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Ligeia
Man of the Crowd
[Mesmeric Revelation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646037W)
Oval Portrait
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)
Subjects: mesmerism, American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, Fiction, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, short stories, tarns, horror fiction, cats, Children's fiction, short story, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, self-hatred, gallows, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Translations into French, Horror tales, American -- Translations into French, Horror tales, American
Places: Paris
People: Mr. Vankirk, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Ethelred