The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Balloon-Hoax / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Malestrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart)

By Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: short stories, American fiction, burial vaults, shrouds, short story, plagues, gallows, fear, Mystery and detective stories, Ratiocination, Gothic fiction, unreliable narrators, Crime fiction, heroic romances, mountaineering, Horror stories, Crime, nobility, American detective and mystery stories, Horror tales, self-hatred, Juvenile audience, daggers, catalepsy, American Horror tales, Horror, fantasy fiction, Hematidrosis, tarns, American Short stories, first-person narrative, Murder, abbeys, Hyperesthesia, Homicide, Fiction, Children's fiction, dragons, hermitages, maces, monograms, Revenge, psychogenic death, American literature, cats, knights, masquerade balls, pendulums, Juvenile fiction, embedded narrative, Spanish Inquisition, vortex, whirlpools, Classic Literature, Horror fiction, English short stories, Detective and mystery stories, hysteria

Description: Balloon-Hoax [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [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 [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Murders in the Rue Morgue [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)