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This is the walking cane used by the narrator when the police were searching his basement for his wife. The narrator ends up giving away where his dead wife is located by tapping on the wall with it. The cat had also been sealed in the wall and…

The actual oval portrait that takes the life of the wife, because the painter she marries is as much in love with this painting as he is with her. The wife ends up dying by the time he completes the painting.

The king's wine goblet serves as the straw that broke the camels back in the short story "Hop Frog." Hop Frog, the court jester, plotted revenge after the king threw wine from the goblet in Trippetta's face; all because she was trying to save Hop…

The jester of fool shown here was a used in ancient kings courts to ridicule or belittle. This was an important theme in "Hop Frog" to show just how careless and cruel the king was.

The crow that stole the narrator's pants when he is stripped down to attempt to drown himself in a river. The narrator ends up chasing the bird to retrieve the pants, and never does catch the bird or retrieve his pants.

In the story Ligeia, there is a censer, which is an incense burner, that puts off light in the brides chamber where the narrator's second wife, Lady Rowena Trevanion, is dying. The narrator keeps seeing shadows from the light but there is nothing…

When the narrator moves the candelabra he notices the oval portrait in the corner of the room. This strikes the narrators curiosity to find and read about the painting in the book, where the tragedy of painting it is told.

The almost identical cat that haunts the narrator after he hangs the first one. This cat is also missing one of it's eyes, the only difference between the two is this cat has a white patch of fur on it's chest that resembles a gallows.

The story The Balloon Hoax actually appeared in the April 13, 1844 New York Sun, and was about the fictitious first transatlantic voyage, which people that read it were actually believing. Even though this article is real, I decided to include a…

The balloon being driven by the Angel of the Odd and attached guide rope that saves the narrator from falling over a cliff to his death while chasing a crow that took his pants.