Mesmerism "in articulo mortis"

an astounding & horrifying narrative, shewing the extraordinary power of mesmerism in arresting the progress of death

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Edgar Allan Poe: Mesmerism "in articulo mortis" (1846, Short & Co.)

microform, 16 pages

English language

Published Nov. 14, 1846 by Short & Co..

OCLC Number:
11818054

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"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.

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