Tales of Mystery and Terror (Black Cat / Descent into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Masque of the Red Death / MS. Found in a Bottle / Oblong Box / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words With a Mummy / Sphinx / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)

By Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: daggers, Crime, abbeys, masquerade balls, short story, gallows, catalepsy, OverDrive, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Homicide, Hematidrosis, Children's stories, American, American Horror tales, hermitages, Classic Literature, Horror fiction, self-hatred, knights, Fiction, American literature, Horror tales, tarns, Ratiocination, Murder, nobility, pendulums, Horror stories, whirlpools, Poe, edgar allan, 1809-1849, Children's fiction, hysteria, heroic romances, dragons, Spanish Inquisition, aristocracy, short stories, embedded narrative, maces, Juvenile audience, American Detective and mystery stories, burial vaults, shrouds, Suspense, gothic fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), American Short stories, American fiction, fear, mountaineering, vortex, Literature, Crime fiction, first-person narrative, Mystery and detective stories, Authors, american, unreliable narrators, psychogenic death, horror, Detective and mystery stories, plagues, cats

Description: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) Hop-Frog [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) MS. Found in a Bottle Oblong Box Oval Portrait Pit and the Pendulum Some Words With a Mummy Sphinx [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)