Selections from the Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Silence / William Wilson)

By Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: short stories, American fiction, burial vaults, shrouds, plagues, fear, horror, Ratiocination, Literature, heroic romances, mountaineering, Horror stories, Crime, nobility, Horror tales, Juvenile audience, daggers, catalepsy, American Horror tales, gothic fiction, Hematidrosis, tarns, American Short stories, abbeys, Fiction, silence, Children's fiction, dragons, hermitages, maces, Revenge, psychogenic death, American literature, knights, masquerade balls, pendulums, Juvenile fiction, embedded narrative, Spanish Inquisition, aristocracy, vortex, whirlpools, Classic Literature, Horror fiction, Detective and mystery stories, hysteria

Description: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [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 Pit and the Pendulum [Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)