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Weird Tales (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Shadow / Silence / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man)

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  • 1895 first published
  • 258 pages
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Published in 1895, Weird Tales (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Shadow / Silence / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man) is a gothic fiction and horror story collection by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is set in Valley of the Many-Colored Grass and Heaven. Characters include Demon, Egaeus and Berenice. It deals with crime, first-person narrative, Homicide and Hyperesthesia.

At about 258 pages, most readers finish it in 4–5 hours.

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  • American Horror tales
  • Children's fiction
  • Classic Literature
  • Crime
  • Crime fiction
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • First-person narrative
  • Gothic fiction
  • Homicide
  • Horror
  • Horror fiction
  • Horror stories
  • Horror tales
  • Hyperesthesia
  • Murder
  • Silence

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Who wrote Weird Tales (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Shadow / Silence / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man)?

Weird Tales (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Shadow / Silence / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man) was written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1895.

What genre is Weird Tales (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Shadow / Silence / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man)?

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

How long is Weird Tales (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Shadow / Silence / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man)?

The median edition has 258 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Weird Tales (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Shadow / Silence / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man)?

Readers who like it often enjoy Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century) and The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition.

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