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The pit and the pendulum
It is about a man who was locked in a cell, he didn´t remember anything except that he was in Toledo before being in the cell. One day he saw a hole, he thought that the torturers were going to kill him. The next day he appeared in another room. -
The pit and the pendulum
He could see this room. On the ceiling was a drawing of an old man with an hourglass and a blade. He was tied to a wooden bed, suddenly rats appeared, they appeared because he had food next to him, at that very moment the blade had started to go down. He thought that if the rats chewed on his rope it might break free, so he spilled meat over his body, but the blade was already grazing his foot, just before the blade cut him, it released, and then the blade stopped. -
The pit and the pendulum
He knew they were watching him and so he stopped the blade. As soon as the man broke free the walls were hot and moving. His clothes started to burn, but someone caught him by the arm. It turned out to be a French soldier, the French soldiers had captured the city of Toledo, and all the prisoners were free. -
The gold bug
It's about finding a treasure on Sullivan's Island. A man named Legrand told a friend of his that he had found a golden bug, he drew it to show it to him and the friend said it looked like a skull. This made Mr. Legrand think. The friend, after that, went home. -
The gold bug
Mr. Legrand went to investigate and discovered something, so he told his friend to come to his house again so that he could tell him in person. When Legrand arrived he said nothing, only asked his friend and Jupiter, his servant, to accompany him on an expedition. -
The gold bug
The expedition took them through a series of tests and to find what they wanted they had to find out. They solved them and this led they to find a pirate treasure, they dug in one place and found it. They investigated and found out that the treasure was from the pirate Kidd and they also knew that the pirate had killed to all his crew to protect the loot location. -
The facts in the case of Mr Valdemar
The story is that an acquaintance of Valdemar wants to do an experiment with hypnosis on someone who is about to die to see if hypnotism can save him from death. So he contacted Valdemar because he knew that he was going to die and when. Valdemar accepted since he knew he was going to die, but there could be a chance for him to live. -
The facts in the case of Mr Valdemar
When the moment of death arrives, the man hypnotizes Valdemar and suddenly he did everything the man ordered him to do. Seven months passed, and Valdemar was still in a trance. -
The facts in the case of Mr Valdemar
Since Valdemar was still in a trance, the man tried to wake him up, but before that he asked Valdemar, how he felt about being dead, he asked to be awakened, but when he woke up, his body immediately rotted and a yellow liquid began to come out of him. Only his bones and the yellow liquid remained. -
The fall of the house of Usher
This story is about Mr. Roderick Usher, he was very ill and he spoke to his old friend, telling him to come see him. Roderick's sister lived with him. She also suffered from a strange disease and was going to die soon. -
The fall of the house of Usher
The friend stayed for a few days and was talking to Roderick, but one day he suddenly told his friend that Madelaine, his sister, was dead and that if he could help him put her in the cellar coffin. He said yes, scared, then they went down and put her in the coffin. She was wearing a white dress and had a white face. The friend thought that Madelaine was dead, but at the same time she wasn´t, this kept him awake, at night there was a great storm. -
The fall of the house of Usher
Roderick went to his friend's room with a lamp, when there was thunder the lamp went out. And suddenly Madelaine was at the door of the room with the white dress full of blood. Roderick went to hug his sister, but at the second Roderick and Madelaine fell dead. The friend ran away and looked towards the house, there was a terrible black wind, suddenly a lightning strike hit the house, it broke little by little and finally the house fell into the lake. -
Down into the Maelstrom
Between Moskoe and Vurrgh is the Maelstrom, a whirlwind. The narrator went to Norway to see him and paid a man to show it to him. -
Down into the Maelstrom
Arriving a mountain to see the whirlwind, the guide told a story to the narrator. This is a summary of the story: he went with his brothers to Moskoe to fish, since the clock had broken they didn´t know what time it was, it was seven or so when they realized it, and the Maelstrom caught them by surprise. -
Down into the Maelstrom
His two brothers died, but he was saved because he grabbed a barrel and came to the surface of the sea. There were some boats sailing through the area and they rescued him, but they didn´t believe what the guide told them about the whirlwind. -
The masque of the Red Death
A disease called Red Death came to that country. Prince Prospero invited the Cartesans to his castle to forget about the disease. He had a party with masques. There were colored rooms. When the prince and the others entered the red room, everything stopped when the clock bell rang. -
The masque of the Red Death
Women and men turned pale. When the clock stopped everything returned to normal. No one wanted to enter the seventh room, the red room. Every hour the clock rang and everything stopped. The bell rang twelve times, that is, it was already midnight. -
The masque of the Red Death
A stranger entered the castle, wearing a long white dress, it was the clothing of a dead man. The prince ordered to kill him, he left there, but the masqued man got rid of those who were going to kill him and followed the prince to the black room. A red light illuminated the stranger and the prince died on the second and then the courtiers died bleeding. Red Death robbed the prince of his power. -
The oblong box
The narrator was from New York, but he moved to Charleston. One day a ship was going to New York and he reserved a cabin. Through the passenger list, he learns that Cornelius Wyatt, a former college classmate, was on board and with his wife and her brothers. When they reach the cabins, an oblong box reaches Mr. Cornelious. -
The oblong box
The narrator first thought that there were paintings inside, but then he began to think about what might be inside, because he avoided the subject, he lieded to him about his wife and because he was bordering with him. There was a storm, there was water on the boat and they took the passengers to the boats. The ship was sinking. -
The oblong box
They forgot about Wyatt, he was pushing the box to the boats, but he soon drowned. A month later the narrator learned, speaking to the captain, that Cornelious's wife the day before the travel died, and also learned that she is what was inside the box and that the woman was with Wyatt was the maid. The captain told him that the ship sank because it is bad luck to carry a dead person on a ship.
