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American Short stories, Fiction, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, Children's fiction, short story, tradition, change, death, short stories, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, tarns, History, Classic Literature, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, inquests, coroners, mountain lionsPeople
Hugh Morgan, William Harker, Peyton Farquhar, C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Giacomo Rappaccini, Giovanni Guasconti, Beatrice Rappaccini, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris, Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, EthelredPlaces
United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, Paris, Padua, India, Italy, University of Padua, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha CountyTimes
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