Great Tales of Terror (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Pit and the Pendulum)

By Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: Crime, horror fiction, short story, gallows, catalepsy, Revenge, Juvenile fiction, American Horror tales, hermitages, Classic Literature, self-hatred, knights, Fiction, American literature, tarns, pendulums, Horror stories, Children's fiction, hysteria, heroic romances, dragons, Spanish Inquisition, short stories, maces, burial vaults, gothic fiction, American Short stories, American fiction, fear, first-person narrative, unreliable narrators, psychogenic death, horror tales, horror, Detective and mystery stories, cats

Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Ligeia [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)