Tales of Terror (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum / Tell-Tale Heart)

By Neil Waldman, Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: short stories, American fiction, burial vaults, shrouds, short story, plagues, gallows, fear, Ratiocination, Gothic fiction, unreliable narrators, Crime fiction, heroic romances, mountaineering, Horror stories, Crime, American Children's stories, nobility, Horror tales, self-hatred, Juvenile audience, daggers, catalepsy, American Horror tales, Horror, Hematidrosis, tarns, American Short stories, first-person narrative, Murder, abbeys, Hyperesthesia, Homicide, Fiction, Children's fiction, dragons, hermitages, maces, Revenge, psychogenic death, American literature, cats, knights, masquerade balls, pendulums, Juvenile fiction, embedded narrative, Spanish Inquisition, vortex, whirlpools, Classic Literature, Horror fiction, 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) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) Hop-Frog Ligeia [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Ms. Found in a Bottle [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)