The Black Cat (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Masque of the Red Death / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)

By Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: Ying yu, short stories, American fiction, burial vaults, Duan pian xiao shuo, shrouds, short story, plagues, gallows, fear, horror, Ratiocination, unreliable narrators, heroic romances, mountaineering, Horror stories, Crime, nobility, premature burial, Horror tales, self-hatred, Juvenile audience, daggers, catalepsy, American Horror tales, gothic fiction, Xiao shuo ji, Hematidrosis, tarns, American Short stories, first-person narrative, unconsciousness, Yu yan du wu, abbeys, Fiction, crypts, Children's fiction, dragons, hermitages, maces, Taphophobia, Revenge, psychogenic death, American literature, cats, knights, masquerade balls, pendulums, Juvenile fiction, embedded narrative, Spanish Inquisition, vortex, whirlpools, Classic Literature, phobias, Horror fiction, berths, Detective and mystery stories, hysteria

Description: [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/OL40987W) Gold-Bug [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Ms. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Mystery of Marie Roget Oval Portrait [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) Purloined Letter Tell-Tale Heart William Wilson