Browse Stories

A reclusive gentleman on Sullivan's Island finds a peculiar golden beetle and a parchment containing a cryptogram, leading him and his companions on an adventurous hunt for Captain Kidd's buried treasure.

A court jester named Hop-Frog, along with his friend Trippetta, endures abuse from a cruel king and his ministers, culminating in a fiery and gruesome revenge at a masquerade ball.

A man takes fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him, by luring him into catacombs and walling him up alive.

A mesmerist attempts to suspend a dying man, M. Valdemar, at the point of death using hypnotism, leading to horrifying and unforeseen consequences as Valdemar lingers between life and death for months.

Detective C. Auguste Dupin solves the case of a stolen letter, crucial to a royal figure, by understanding the thief's psychology and looking where the police failed to.

A narrator recounts his descent into alcoholism, madness, and violence, starting with the abuse of his beloved black cat, Pluto, and culminating in murder and a chilling discovery.

An unnamed narrator insists on their sanity while describing a murder they committed, driven by an obsession with the victim's 'vulture eye,' only to be tormented by the sound of the victim's beating heart.

Prince Prospero attempts to avoid a deadly plague by sealing himself and his nobles in his abbey, only for a mysterious figure disguised as the Red Death itself to infiltrate his masquerade ball.

A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition recounts his harrowing experiences in a dark cell, facing psychological torture, a descending pendulum blade, and a deep, ominous pit.

C. Auguste Dupin, a brilliant amateur detective, investigates the baffling and brutal murders of two women in a locked room in Paris, using his extraordinary powers of deduction ('ratiocination').

An unnamed narrator visits his ailing friend Roderick Usher in his decaying family mansion, witnessing the mental and physical collapse of the Usher line and the house itself.

A bereaved narrator recounts the profound and mysterious qualities of his first wife, Ligeia, whose powerful will seemingly allows her to return from death by possessing his second wife.