The Black Cat and Other Stories (Black Cat / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Imp of the Perverse / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket / Oblong Box / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart)

By Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: short stories, short story, gallows, Intermediate, Ratiocination, Gothic fiction, unreliable narrators, Crime fiction, mountaineering, tuberculosis, Horror stories, Crime, premature burial, Horror tales, self-hatred, Readers for new literates, coronors, pseudoscience, catalepsy, American Horror tales, Horror, hoaxes, first-person narrative, unconsciousness, Murder, Hyperesthesia, Homicide, self-destructive behavior, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), crypts, Children's fiction, Hypnagogia, Taphophobia, hypnotism, metaphors, Mesmerism, American literature, cats, animal magnetism, Juvenile fiction, embedded narrative, suspense, vortex, narration, whirlpools, Classic Literature, Reading, phobias, Horror fiction, berths, Detective and mystery stories, hanging

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) [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) Ms. Found in a Bottle Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Oblong Box [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)