Cover of Selected Tales of Mystery (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Metzengerstein / Pit and the Pendulum / William Wilson)
Gothic FictionHorrorCircus & Carnival

Selected Tales of Mystery (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Metzengerstein / Pit and the Pendulum / William Wilson)

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  • 1909 first published
  • 335 pages
  • 2 editions
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Published in 1909, Selected Tales of Mystery (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Metzengerstein / Pit and the Pendulum / William Wilson) is a gothic fiction and horror story collection by Edgar Allan Poe. It takes readers to Valley of the Many-Colored Grass and Heaven in Carnival. It features William Wilson, Father Time and Prince Prospero. It deals with Aristocracy, Fear, pendulums and Spanish Inquisition.

It runs to roughly 335 pages — 6–7 hours of reading at an average pace.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Characters

Subjects

  • Aristocracy
  • American Horror tales
  • American Short stories
  • Children's fiction
  • Fear
  • Horror
  • Horror stories
  • Pendulums
  • Spanish Inquisition
  • Abbeys
  • Daggers
  • Gothic fiction
  • Hematidrosis
  • Horror fiction
  • Horror tales
  • Juvenile audience

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Who wrote Selected Tales of Mystery (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Metzengerstein / Pit and the Pendulum / William Wilson)?

Selected Tales of Mystery (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Metzengerstein / Pit and the Pendulum / William Wilson) was written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1909.

What genre is Selected Tales of Mystery (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Metzengerstein / Pit and the Pendulum / William Wilson)?

It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction, Horror, Circus & Carnival and Dragon Fiction.

How long is Selected Tales of Mystery (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Metzengerstein / Pit and the Pendulum / William Wilson)?

The median edition has 335 pages, about 6–7 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Selected Tales of Mystery (Assignation / Cask of Amontillado / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Metzengerstein / Pit and the Pendulum / William Wilson)?

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