Of course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. Valdemar has excited discussion.
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(1846)
Mesmerism "in articulo mortis"
an astounding & horrifying narrative, shewing the extraordinary power of mesmerism in arresting the progress of death
by Edgar Allan Poe
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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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BAL 16151
First published in The American review v. 2, no. 12 (Dec. 1845) as: The facts of M. Valdemar's case. Cf. Heartman, C.F. Poe (rev. ed.), p. 111.
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