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

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)