Tales of Terror and Fantasy (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart)

By Edgar Allan Poe

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

Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [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 Ms. Found in a Bottle Pit and the Pendulum [Premature Burial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24583029W) [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)