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Seven Stories of Mystery and Horror (by Edgar Allan Poe)

By IsabellaCarter

  • THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

    THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
    1. He wakes up in a black room and slowly realises that he is in a prison sell about to reach his death.
    2. He managed to use the help of the rats in the sell to untie him. 3.The french soldiers had captured the city of Toledo.

  • THE GOLD BUG

    THE GOLD BUG
    1. The man asked his friend for some paper to demonstrate the bug that he had seen. With the light of the fire they looked at it.
    2. He showed him that the paper had a secret message leading to a treasure that pirates had hidden.
    3. They found out the message and clues in time to find the treasure that made them rich.

  • THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF MR. VALDEMAR

    THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF MR. VALDEMAR
    1. Mr. Valdemar doesn't want to have a painful death so him and his friend decide to put him under hipnosis to have a non painful death. 2. He dies but his body stays the same so the doctor told his friend that until his body doesn't change he won't make his death official.
    2. Seven months later his friend decides to stop the hipnosis as Mr. Valdemars body was the same. When he does, his body turned into yellow liquid and bones...

  • THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

    THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
    1. A man saw his oldest friend Roderick Usher.
    2. Roderick told him about his sisters illness.
    3. Roderick and his sister dropped dead on the floor.

  • DOWN INTO THE MAELSTROM

    DOWN INTO THE MAELSTROM
    1. He saw the Maelstrom in Norway.
    2. The man's guide told him about his experience there.
    3. His guide survived his experience but came out as a different person.

  • THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

    THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
    1. The red room was empty and no one wanted to enter it.
    2. A stranger entered the castle leaving everyone very confused.
    3. Everyone has a slow death after the stranger.
    4. Read Death was the new ruler of the castle.

  • THE OBLONG BOX

    THE OBLONG BOX
    1. The man doesn't know that his friends wife has passed away.
    2. They have to leave the boat and the man will not leave the box on the boat.
    3. His friend finds out that his dead wife is in the box.