Edgar Allan Poe
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man's heart is still beating under the floorboards.
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Un joven caballero es invitado al viejo caserón de un amigo de la adolescencia, Roderick Usher, artista enfermizo y excéntrico que vive completamente recluido en compañía de su hermana, Lady Madeline, también delicada de salud. Usher vive presa de una enfermedad indefinible, lo que hace a todos temer por su vida. La que acaba muriendo es su hermana. Sus restos mortales son depositados en una cripta, pero no tardan en producirse terribles acontecimientos
..."The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death", is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, has a masquerade ball within seven rooms of his abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious
...El pozo y el péndulo (título original en inglés: The Pit and the Pendulum) es uno de los cuentos más famosos y celebrados de Edgar Allan Poe. Está considerado como uno de los relatos más espeluznantes dentro de la literatura de terror, pues transmite el abandono, la desorientación, el desconcierto y la desesperanza de una persona que sabe que va a morir.
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13) William Wilson
The story follows a man of "a noble descent" who calls himself William Wilson because, although denouncing his profligate past, he does not accept full blame for his actions, saying that "man was never thus ... tempted before". After several paragraphs, the narration then segues into a description of Wilson's boyhood, which is spent in a school "in a misty-looking village of England".
William meets
..."The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story is deemed guilty for an unnamed crime and put into a completely dark room. He passes out while trying to determine the size of the room. When he wakes up, he realizes there is a large, deep pit in
...Relato en el que una misteriosa peste ataca la ciudad de Próspero, príncipe de una ficticia nación, al cual le complacía darse todo tipo de placeres, de los que un rey puede disfrutar, como el buen gusto, las artes, los bailes orquestados y fiestas rodeadas de diversión y sarcasmo.
Al darse cuenta de que la peste atacaba a toda su región, decide encerrarse en su castillo, junto con varios cientos de nobles de su corte los cuales intentan
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20) King Pest
King Pest the First is the main antagonist of the story,"King Pest". He is the supposed ruler of a kingdom, in reality, the kingdomis a basement, and his subjects are a group of six drunken beggars.
He first appears, drinking merrily with his subjects, and graciously, allows Hugh and Legs to join their merriment. The King introduces himself and his peers, but this arouses Hugh's suspicion, for the King's lair used
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