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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
Second only to "The Imp of the Perverse" among Poe's "horror-essays."
That was ... terrifying.
Half of it is stories of people who were buried alive or thought dead and treated as such and all of that, and the rest of it is the narrator living in his terrified fear of being buried alive because he has catalepsy or something like that. My heart is racing just thinking about the story again. I want to reread it but I am simultaneously afraid to. Definitely the most hard-hitting of any Poe short stories I have read thus far.
Half of it is stories of people who were buried alive or thought dead and treated as such and all of that, and the rest of it is the narrator living in his terrified fear of being buried alive because he has catalepsy or something like that. My heart is racing just thinking about the story again. I want to reread it but I am simultaneously afraid to. Definitely the most hard-hitting of any Poe short stories I have read thus far.
Thhis is a topic that I have always thought about. Ever since I heard the true tale behind Bloody Mary I have wondered about this. I knew about the sickness before reading this short story. I loved the reflection behind living with the named disease. The ending was somewhat predictable but I still loved it. It is a great addition the collection of Edgar Allan Poe at his best.
The Premature Burial is a story that left me conflicted. It’s more of a three-point-five-star rating, and I did consider rounding it up. I couldn’t quite bring myself to do so, though. It was a story that hooked me, one that had me curious to see how it played out, and it certainly had the creepy vibe that Poe was so good at. It is very much a story of the time, and I’m sure it would have hit harder for those reading when a fear of being buried alive was prevalent.
Although not my favourite Poe, it’s certainly worth the read.
Although not my favourite Poe, it’s certainly worth the read.