To: Scoutmaster; JRandomFreeper; Tax-chick; null and void; Monkey Face
Edgar Allen Poe had a fear of being buried alive.
81 posted on
02/28/2014 3:13:30 PM PST by
Darksheare
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To: Darksheare
As do I. But he put his fear into stories. I don’t know how to do that without my mainspring going, “SPROING!”
82 posted on
02/28/2014 3:20:55 PM PST by
Monkey Face
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To: Darksheare; JRandomFreeper; Tax-chick; null and void; Monkey Face
Edgar Allen Poe had a fear of being buried alive.He incorporated that fear into "The Premature Burial", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "Berenice", and probably other writings.
I don't know what caused his obsession. Public obsession with vivisepulture comes and goes. The incident of obsession closest to Poe's life was from the 1870s to 1900, long after Poe's 1849 death.
98 posted on
02/28/2014 4:09:32 PM PST by
Scoutmaster
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