Short Stories (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Raven / Tell-Tale Heart)

By Edgar Allan Poe

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

Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) Cask of Amontillado [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Ligeia [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) Raven Tell-Tale Heart