The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
A mesmerist recounts how he places his terminally ill patient, M. Valdemar, into a hypnotic trance at the moment of apparent death; astonishingly, the subject remains suspended between life and death, answering questions and showing no vital signs for months. The narrator details the corpse’s waxen, blackened appearance and the eerie, disembodied speech that continues until, upon the mesmerist’s final command to release the trance, the body instantly collapses into a foul, liquefied mass. The story probes the boundary between life and death and uses medical curiosity and grotesque physical dissolution to produce chilling horror.
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- 1845
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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