The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

Name: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
ISBN: 9781594561788

184624 pagesBookSurge Classics

"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by the 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 (1845) took it to be a factual account. Poe toyed with the idea for a while before he admitted it to be a work of pure fiction in his marginalia. ---------- This story also contained in: [Basil Rathbone Reads Edgar Allan Poe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24951848W) [Complete Tales and Poems](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24964639W) [Creepy Classics](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8213021W) [Cuentos de terror](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14948575W) [Future Perfect](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3931584W) [Ghostly Tales and Eerie Poems of Edgar Allan Poe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14937997W) [Great Book of Thrillers](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8476718W) [Great Science Fiction About Doctors](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16045473W) [In the Shadow of the Master](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14938012W) [Masters of the Macabre](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14926831W) [Mysteries and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24955662W) [Novelas y Cuentos](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24935025W) [Penguin Book of Horror Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1835641W) [Seltsame Geschichten](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14938102W) [Short Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14938142W) [Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24834421W) [Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24695775W) [Tales: Mystery and Occultism](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14938139W) [Tales: Mystery and Occultism/Horror and Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24903243W) [Tales: Volume III](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24945061W) [Tales of Mystery and Horror: Vol. III](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19956142W) [Tales of Suspense](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41009W) [These Will Chill You](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7243354W) [Twelve Creepy Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24900303W) [Works of Edgar Allan Poe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14938136W) [Works of Edgar Allan Poe: In Five Volumes: Volume Two](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273463W)

Avg. reading time: 34m
Prose complexity: 4/10

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in...

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