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Seven Stories of Mystery and Horror
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THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
The protagonist and narrator of the story awoke, and believed he was in a prison. He didn't know where he was, so he started researching the place. Searching he found a wall and started looking for a window so he could see where he was and how he could get out. But he found nothing, there was a plate of food, which when he finished eating fell asleep. -
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
When he awoke, he began to explore the cell, when he walked, he found something in the center of the cell, a hole, but to comported the depth, he threw a rock, and it was heard that it was deep. So, he can't escape. Again, when he eats the new dish, he goes back to sleep. When he woke up, the cell was not completely dark, he saw that there was a door and paintings, but one of them stood out more. It was a pendulum! He went back to sleep. -
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
When he woke up, he was tied up and couldn't move. The pendulum began to sway, and suddenly he saw that there were rats that were going to attack him, so he hung the bread, the rats were on him, and they started biting the rope. So, I could escape. The walls started moving, and from one moment to the next the walls stopped, and someone broke into the cell and said he was going to get him out of there and save him. -
THE GOLD BUG
Legrand finds a beetle, which looks like gold. On the same day he receives a visit from a friend, to whom he tells his discovery. A month later, the friend receives a note from Legrand telling him to go home urgently. Upon arrival he learns that he has organized a mysterious expedition and agrees to participate in it. Following Legrand's instructions, Jupiter his friend climbs to the top of a tree and finds in it a skull. -
THE GOLD BUG
Thanks to the beetle's fall, through the left eye of the skull, Legrand discovers fifty feet. That is, a treasure, buried in another time by a persecuted pirate. The piece of paper on which Legrand had drawn the beetle's drawing was an old scroll found on the beach. -
THE GOLD BUG
The parchment was written with a pigment that became visible as it approached the heat. As his friend had brought the paper closer to the fire, the skull appeared, suggesting that it could be a document of a pirate. Applying uniform heat to the entire parchment, he discovered that it contained a cryptogram that he managed to decipher, and the message led him to locate the treasure. -
THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF MR VALDEMAR
The writer wanted to do something with a human being that he needed little to die for. He began to search within his circle of friends for someone he could experiment with, in which he reminded his friend Ernesto Valdemar that in recent months he had been detected a tuberculosis. He decided to do the experiment, to which Valdemar was very interested and so we agreed that 24 hours before the day Valdemar had been told he would die, he would look for him to start with the hypnotic experiment. -
THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF MR VALDEMAR
Valdemar concentrated all his power on hypnotizing him and began to present all the symptoms of a person influenced by magnetism, his gaze became like that of a sleepwalking person. After a while he decided to ask him if he was sleeping, to which the Valdemar replied that he did let him die like this. -
THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF MR VALDEMAR
After a few minutes he came over to ask him the question that if he was dead and Valdemar died. After a while dead, a voice came out of his mouth, who answered the question and said, "he wasn't dead, he's dying, now if I'm dead." So, he had to find a way to free Valdemar, and when he woke him up he began to rot like a dead man for several years. -
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
The narrator comes to visit an old friend of his, Roderick Usher, who has urgently called him to accompany him and spend with him for a while in his old mansion. Usher's letter says he suffers from physical discomfort and even some mental disorder. The narrator goes and arrives at dusk into the house. The interior of the mansion matches its look outside. Usher is a sick man. He feels nervous in his attitudes, as if he had the feeling of panic. Usher says he's going to die of terror. -
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
Roderick lived alone with his long-ill sister, and Usher informed his friend of Lady Madeline's death. Before he finally buries the body, he wants to keep it in one of the vaults on the walls of the house. Thus, they both lower the coffin to the bottom of a deep, dark little niche. One night he can't sleep and feels a growing unease. Suddenly his friend arrives, pale and proposes to keep him company. -
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
Getting closer and closer as if someone was approaching. Suddenly the two leaves of the door open and Lady Madeline appears. As she suffered from catalepsy attacks, she had been buried alive. Madeline steps towards her brother and falls on him, dragging him to the ground. Roderick dies of terror, as he himself had said. The friend flees the house, and as he walks away, he sees how he suddenly begins to tear down the house and disappear. -
DOWN INTO THE MAELSTROM
A guide tells the story that he was once a fisherman. As they climbed to the top of hellseguen, the guide tells the traveler, as in six hours of terror they shattered his mind and body. He was fishing with his three brothers, always working in an area of the sea where fishing was more abundant, but the place was more dangerous. -
DOWN INTO THE MAELSTROM
As they knew the area very well, they always respected the times when situations could become dangerous.
But on one occasion they were caught by a severe storm in which the horizon turned copper, and the wind caused them to devote all their attention to saving life and neglected not to fall in the area where at a certain time the Maelstron becomes very dangerous. When they realized they were in the swirl foam and began to fall inward. -
DOWN INTO THE MAELSTROM
As they were falling, he realized that different objects were heading towards the center of the hole at the speed of light and at the same speed as those pooches that had once been part of some boat behaved on their trajectory. He tied himself to a barrel and told his older brother to do the same, but he didn't make it. He threw himself off the boat and saw the ship disappear later with his brother. -
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
In an ancient kingdom, some inhabitants are being contaminated by a terrible pandemic, called "the Red Death," characterized by the large amount of blood that sufferers lose it. But this does not matter much to Prince Prospero, governor of this kingdom, who, together with nobles and important people, shelter in a kind of underground bunker, where they organize celebrations, totally ignoring the outside. On one occasion, the prince decides to organize a mask dance. -
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
This celebration was characterized because in every hour that passed, a clock rang twelve bells, and that led to fear of the guests. There was a black room with red windows that no one dared enter, as it produced the same fear as the clock chimes of the first room. After several hours of the party, the prince saw a guest wearing a mask of a skull, which represented red death, so the prince was offended, and began chasing the mysterious individual throughout the halls. -
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
Finally, when Prospero met the character of the skull, the bells of the clock began to ring, and they all were motionless. Immediately, the mysterious individual turned around with a terrifying cry and Prospero fell dead, pouring abundant blood. Instantly, the guests realized that this character was the living representation of the Red Death, but, they all had the same ending as the prince. It is said that the last guest died just after the twelfth bell of the clock was played. -
THE OBLONG BOX
An unnamed narrator recounts a sea voyage from Charleston to New York aboard a ship. The sailor learns that his former college classmate Cornelius Wyatt is on board with his wife and two sisters, although he has booked three cabins. This surprises the sailor why they would have booked three cabins, so first he says it was surely for his servants, but when checking on his crew list he may realize that the word servants was deleted from the list. -
THE OBLONG BOX
Then he concludes that he possibly booked it to carry something he wanted to keep in sight. As he was about to set sail, he realizes that all He had of luggage was a wooden box. The sailor saw Wyatt come into the cabin and return at dawn. The marriage was separated and the dilemma of the three cabins was resolved. At an unexpected time a hurricane hit, and it was so big that it damaged the ship, this caused the crew to be taken to the nearest port by the boats. -
THE OBLONG BOX
Wyatt saw that his box was gone, and demanded that he return to the ship for it, to which the captain said no, so he jumped into the sea and went looking for his box. He left the ship swimming and tangled his box with a rope to his body and instantly sank. After a month he met the captain of that ship, who counted that the contents of the oblong box was the corpse of Mr. Wyatt's wife, because he had promised to bring the remains of his beloved to New York with his mother.
