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== The Black Cat ==

* The decaying mental health of the protagonist, and the way he treats the poor cats, is very unsettling.

{{quote| "Gentlemen, I delight to have allayed your suspicions. These walls -- are you going, gentlemen? -- these walls are solidly put together."}}

{{quote|"Gentlemen, I delight to have allayed your suspicions. These walls -- are you going, gentlemen? -- these walls are solidly put together."}}

== Berenice ==

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* The whole concept of this little-known tale is terrifying. A man hypnotized on the brink of death is frozen there for weeks, and when he's brought out of the trance, {{spoiler|he rots, in a matter of seconds, into a putrid mass}}. This story must have been doubly unsettling to the people who thought it was a real scientific report back when it was originally published.

** Harry Clarke's [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Valdemar-Clarke.jpg illustration] of the finale is so well-executed you can almost ''[[Nausea Fuel|smell]]'' it.

{{quote| I ''have been sleeping''... and now... now... {{spoiler|''I am dead''.}}}}

{{quote|I ''have been sleeping''... and now... now... {{spoiler|''I am dead''.}}}}

== The Fall of the House of Usher ==

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== The Masque Of The Red Death ==

* The description of the disease, and the ending.

{{quote| "And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their reve, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."}}

{{quote|"And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their reve, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."}}

== The Murders in the Rue Morgue ==