Tales of Mystery and Imagination

["short stories" "aristocracy" "American Horror tales" "American literature" "Children's fiction" "Classic Literature" "Crime" "Crime fiction" "Detective and mystery stories" "Fiction" "first-person narrative" "Gothic fiction" "Homicide" "Horror" "Horror fiction" "Horror stories" "Horror tales" "Hyperesthesia" "Juvenile fiction" "Murder" "premature burial" "catalepsy" "Taphophobia" "crypts" "phobias" "unconsciousness" "berths" "American fiction" "American Short stories" "fear" "pendulums" "Spanish Inquisition" "abbeys" "daggers" "Hematidrosis" "Juvenile audience" "masquerade balls" "nobility" "plagues" "shrouds" "self-destructive behavior" "metaphors" "coroners" "hanging" "burial vaults" "dragons" "hermitages" "heroic romances" "hysteria" "knights" "maces" "psychogenic death" "tarns" "embedded narrative" "mountaineering" "whirlpools" "vortex" "Ratiocination" "cats" "short story" "unreliable narrators" "self-hatred" "gallows" "horror story" "obsessive-compulsive disorder" "monomania" "fixation"]