And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 100 one classic short short stories entails. Today, the premature burial by Edgar

Allen Poe. As so often with his stories, the premature burial is told by an unnamed narrator who he tells us has

been suffering with catalepsy people's fear of being buried alive in this story he tells us about people who have been buried while still alive only to be subsequently rescued

The really strange thing about this story of Edgar Allen Poz is that in his first example he tells the story of a woman who died in Baltimore

She was seized suddenly with a type of illness that the physicians could not figure out.

The same, in truth, happened in Baltimore with Edgar Allan Poe,

and he was seized with the situation that the doctors could not figure out and he died within three days.

I'll give you more of his story at the end of this story as you will soon hear.

Truth is stranger than fiction. It's great mystery and horror fiction

from Edgar Allan Poe. Hope you enjoy it.

And now the premature burial by Edgar Allan Poe.

There are certain themes of which the interest is all absorbing,

but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

These the mere romanticist must eschew, if he does not wish to offend or to disgust.

They are with propriety handled only when the severity and majesty of truth

sanctify and sustain them. We thrill, for example, with the most intense of pleasurable pain

over the accounts of the passage of the

baricina, of the earthquake at Lisbon, of the plague at London, of the massacre

of St Bartholomew, or of the sitting of the hundred and twenty-three prisoners in the black hole at

Calcutta.

But in these accounts it is the fact.

It is the reality.

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