Short Stories (Black Cat / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter)

By Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: short stories, American fiction, burial vaults, shrouds, short story, plagues, gallows, fear, horror, Mystery and detective stories, Ratiocination, unreliable narrators, heroic romances, mountaineering, tuberculosis, Horror stories, nobility, Horror tales, self-hatred, Juvenile audience, pseudoscience, daggers, catalepsy, American Horror tales, gothic fiction, Hematidrosis, hoaxes, tarns, American Short stories, first-person narrative, Fiction, Children's fiction, dragons, hermitages, Hypnagogia, maces, hypnotism, Mesmerism, monograms, psychogenic death, American literature, cats, animal magnetism, knights, masquerade balls, pendulums, embedded narrative, suspense, Spanish Inquisition, vortex, narration, whirlpools, Horror fiction, hysteria

Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) [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 Ligeia [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Ms. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Mystery of Marie Roget [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W)