By George Edward Woodbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman
[Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) Colloquy of Monos and Una Conversation of Eiros and Charmion [Eleonora](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14937980W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Hop-Frog Ligeia [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Metzengerstein Morella Oval Portrait [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) Power of Words Shadow [Silence — A Fable](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13370628W) Tale of the Ragged Mountains
Severity reflects intensity, not value — “central theme” means a warning is a core part of the book, not that the book is bad.