Tales (Black Cat / Colloquy of Monos and Una / Conversation of Eiros and Charmion / Descent Into the Maelström / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Lionizing / Man in the Crowd / Mesmeric Revelation / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Purloined Letter)

whirlpools embedded narrative Ratiocination vortex Mesmerism self-hatred gallows unreliable narrators monograms heroic romances maces burial vaults hermitages psychogenic death tarns knights catalepsy Hysteria first-person narrative Gothic fiction Mountaineering short story Horror fiction American Detective and mystery stories American Horror tales Horror Dragons Horror tales Cats Short stories Mystery and detective stories Children's fiction Fiction