The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

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, premature burial, Horror tales, self-hatred, Juvenile audience, daggers, catalepsy, American Horror tales, Horror, Hematidrosis, fixation, tarns, American Short stories, first-person narrative, coroners, obsessive-compulsive disorder, unconsciousness, Murder, abbeys, Hyperesthesia, Homicide, self-destructive behavior, Fiction, silence, crypts, Children's fiction, dragons, hermitages, maces, Taphophobia, metaphors, monograms, psychogenic death, American literature, cats, monomania, knights, masquerade balls, pendulums, Juvenile fiction, embedded narrative, Spanish Inquisition, aristocracy, vortex, whirlpools, Classic Literature, phobias, Horror fiction, berths, Detective and mystery stories, hysteria, hanging

Description: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) Balloon Hoax [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) [Eleonora](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14937980W) [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) Gold-Bug Hop-Frog [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) Ligeia Man That Was Used Up [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Morella Ms. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Oval Portrait [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Purloined Letter](https://openlibraryorg/works/OL41065W) [Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W) Sphinx System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)