Ligeia, the Tell-Tale Heart and the Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Description:... LigeiaLigeia is an early short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia. She falls ill and dies. After her death, the narrator marries the Lady Rowena. Rowena becomes ill and she dies as well. The distraught narrator stays with her body overnight and watches as Rowena slowly comes back from the dead - but she has transformed into Ligeia.The Tell-Tale HeartThe Tell-Tale Heart is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the form of the sound-possibly hallucinatory-of the old man's heart still beating under the floorboards.The Facts in the Case of M. ValdemarThe Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also, to a certain degree, a hoax as it was published without claiming to be fictional, and many at the time of publication took it to be a factual account. Poe toyed with this for a while before admitting it was a work of pure fiction.
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