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Title: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrator: David House
Format: Unabridged
Length: 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-25-08
Publisher: PC Treasures, Inc.
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Teens, Mysteries & Thrillers
Publisher's Summary:
A classic tale of terror from beyond the shroud of death, Poe's tale of mesmerism gives us a glimpse into the pallid mind of madness. A dying man enlists the aid of a hypnotist to have himself put into a trance before dying in order to ease his suffering. After passing gently away, his corpse stiff and cold, the man shocks all by speaking. Worse, the trance is holding him in a terrible living-dead trance from which he seeks release - but could the release be even more horrible?
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Members Reviews:
Scary masterpiece that predicts Ebola effects
I read this very short story as a child and loved it (also terrified by it). But after reading a lot about Ebola I reread the story and was even more shocked!.
Good short story
I enjoyed this book. It is very short but the story is compelling. I would recommend it to any Poe fans. This is one of his lesser known books.
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This was a great short story. I really enjoyed reading this. I would to recommend it to any Poe fan.
Short, distrubing (what else?) Poe story
I found out about this short story, as well as âThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Nantucket,â both by Edgar Allen Poe, from a reference by Bart Dawes, protagonist of Richard Bachman/Stephen Kingâs book âRoadwork,â related to what happens to a person at the moment of death. This was a freebie from Amazon/Kindle, as is the other work.
In this short story, the narrator is a hypnotist (âmesmerist,â in his terms). He is interested in what may happen if a person is mesmerized âin articulo mortis,â a Latin phrase meaning âat the moment of death.â His particular interest is if death can be put off or otherwise interfered with by this process. His subject is a sickly friend, M. Valdemar, who is dying of phthisis, an old term meaning pulmonary tuberculosis (see, you learn something new every day), Valdemar had hitherto been a willing subject of the narratorâs hypnotism experiments and is very willing to participate in this one. There are a couple of doctors and a medical student who are monitoring Vadlemarâs vitals throughout this process. And when the moment comes and Valemar is put under the tranceâwell, that would spoil the ending, wouldnât it? Interesting little story, even if one must sort of trudge through the 19th Century English, but it does not disappoint. Recommended!
An interesting story about old Victorian occultists. A man ...
An interesting story about old Victorian occultists. A man is hypnotized on the brink of death, and continues to speak from beyond the grave. It's not a particularly scary story, so much as intriguing. I've seen the same basic idea used recently on the NoSleep Podcast, in "My Brother Kept Talking" by Robert Ahern, which has a greater focus on horror. Poe's story doesn't look all too much at the information provided by Valdemar. It's really more of a "hey, we did it!" sort of tale, with just the tiniest of implications at the end.
This story is in the public domain. I listened to the free audio production from Librivox's 5th ghost and horror collection.