Mystery Tales (Black Cat / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Purloined Letter / William Wilson)

By Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: short stories, American fiction, burial vaults, shrouds, short story, plagues, gallows, horror, Mystery and detective stories, unreliable narrators, heroic romances, Horror stories, nobility, Horror tales, self-hatred, American horror tales, Juvenile audience, daggers, catalepsy, gothic fiction, Hematidrosis, tarns, first-person narrative, abbeys, Fiction, Children's fiction, dragons, hermitages, maces, monograms, psychogenic death, cats, knights, masquerade balls, aristocracy, Horror fiction, hysteria

Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [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 Oval Portrait [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)