Edgar Allan Poe's "Berenice" is a dark, psychological horror story narrated by Egaeus, a man suffering from monomania, an intense obsessive focus. Living in his ancestral mansion, he becomes engaged to his cousin Berenice, but as she succumbs to a wasting disease that drastically alters her appearance and induces death-like trances, his affection turns morbid. He develops an all-consuming fixation on her teeth after seeing them in a jarring smile. Following one of Berenice's seizures, she is presumed dead and buried; however, Egaeus, driven by his obsession in a trance-like state, later awakens to find evidence suggesting he exhumed her body (discovering she was still alive) and forcibly extracted her teeth, making this a disturbing tale of madness, obsession, and premature burial unsuitable for young children due to its graphic implications and gothic horror themes.

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