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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

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by Edgar Allan Poe

A short story 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 this for a while before admitting it was a work of pure fiction in his "Marginalia".

1817The Facts in the Case of M. ValdemarEdgar Allan Poe
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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