Edgar Allen Poe: Madhouse

Fictional

Jason Weiser

Arts, History, Books

4.9 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Our humble hero just wanted to swing by a remote mental institution in the south of France on his way back home to America. He was just going to spend one night in the self-described madhouse to sate his curiosity/gawk at the mentally ill. What could be wrong with spending one night in a rural private 1800s insane asylum without a means of escape? You know, besides every word in that sentence.

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Music:

"Grey Alley" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Lonely Stairwell" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Noe Noe" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Our Own Melody" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Strange Dog Walk" by Blue Dot Sessions

Transcript

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0:00.0	You know I've never been to a mental institution?
0:10.7	The young man remarked, he's unnamed.
0:13.1	We'll call him Ed, for narrator.
0:16.3	His traveling companion looked at him.
0:18.3	No, come on, not gonna happen.
0:21.5	It's not even that far, and urged and gave his friend a sheepish smile.
0:26.9	Okay, so don't be mad, but I've kinda been driving toward it for the past half an hour.
0:34.7	He'd heard a lot about it from his medical friends in Paris.
0:37.7	A private mental institution, and it never been anyone to see it.
0:43.1	His friend argued that they weren't just gonna let anyone inside to gawk at all the
0:45.9	mental patients.
0:46.9	He needed to have some credentials, any credentials, really.
0:52.6	The friend sighed, alright, truth time.
0:55.9	He did actually know the superintendent from a few years back.
0:59.0	Mr. Maliard, he would escort into the door, then make an introduction so that Enk could
1:04.1	get in and then he'd take the carriage.
1:06.5	Enk could hitch a ride with one of the doctors or ambulances that came by.
1:09.9	But none of this came without a warning.
1:12.3	This was a mental institution in the year 1818.
1:15.3	These were not nice places to be.
1:18.0	Enk granted dismissed his worried companion.
1:20.5	On the contrary, he'd heard good things about this one.
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