Forty-Two Tales

By Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: Short stories, short stories, American fiction, burial vaults, shrouds, short story, plagues, gallows, fear, Mystery and detective stories, Ratiocination, Gothic fiction, unreliable narrators, Crime fiction, heroic romances, mountaineering, tuberculosis, Horror stories, Crime, nobility, premature burial, Horror tales, self-hatred, Juvenile audience, pseudoscience, daggers, catalepsy, American Horror tales, Horror, Hematidrosis, hoaxes, tarns, American Short stories, first-person narrative, coroners, unconsciousness, Murder, abbeys, Hyperesthesia, Homicide, self-destructive behavior, Fiction, crypts, Children's fiction, dragons, hermitages, Hypnagogia, maces, Taphophobia, hypnotism, metaphors, Mesmerism, monograms, Revenge, psychogenic death, American literature, cats, animal magnetism, satire, knights, masquerade balls, pendulums, Juvenile fiction, embedded narrative, suspense, Spanish Inquisition, aristocracy, vortex, narration, whirlpools, Classic Literature, phobias, Horror fiction, berths, Detective and mystery stories, hysteria, hanging

Description: Angel of the Odd [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) Balloon-Hoax [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) Bon-Bon [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) Devil in the Belfry Diddling Duc de l'OmeIette [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 Hop-Frog [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) King Pest [Landor's Cottage](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646005W) Lionizing Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. Loss Of Breath Man that was Used Up [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Metzengerstein MS. Found in a Bottle Murders in the Rue Morgue Mystery of Marie Roget Oblong Box [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) Some Words with a Mummy Spectacles Sphinx System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether Tale Of Jerusalem Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) Thou art the Man [Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646039W) Three Sundays in a Week [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) X-ing a Paragrab