1. The Black Cat
"Guilt and drink turn a man into a murderer, but the cry of a cat walled up with the body gives his crime away."
2. The Tell-Tale Heart
"A killer tries to prove his sanity, but the sound of an imagined heartbeat makes him confess."
3. The Fall of the House of Usher
"The physical and mental decay of the Usher family ends with the literal collapse of the mansion."
4. The Cask of Amontillado
"Montresor lures Fortunato into the catacombs and walls him in alive for revenge."
5. Berenice
"A dental obsession drives Egaeus to pull the teeth of his bride, who was still alive."
6. The Pit and the Pendulum
"Between deadly blades and a bottomless pit, rescue comes in the final seconds."
7. The Masque of the Red Death
"No wall can protect Prince Prospero and his guests from Death itself."
8. William Wilson
"Trying to kill his doppelgänger, William finds he has destroyed himself."
9. The Gold-Bug
"An encrypted riddle leads to buried pirate treasure."
10. The Purloined Letter
"Detective Dupin finds a valuable letter where nobody thought to look: in plain sight."
11. The Oval Portrait
"The beauty of the art drains the life from its model, blurring reality and painting."
12. Ligeia
"The mysterious Ligeia seems to rise again, taking over the body of the narrator's new wife."
13. The Man of the Crowd
"A man follows an aimless stranger through the city and finds only emptiness."
14. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
"A dying man hypnotised at the moment of death is held between life and decay."
15. Morella
"The wife dies, but her soul seems reborn in their daughter, to her father's horror."
Henrique Matos