The Premature Burial

Description

"The Premature Burial" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. Its main character expresses concern about being buried alive. This fear was common in this period and Poe was taking advantage of the public interest.

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This story also contained in:
Best Horror Stories
Comedies and Satires
Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Complete Tales and Poems
Derniers Contes
Edgar Allan Poe's Erzählungen
El gato negro y otros cuentos
Forgotten Tales
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Historias estraordinarias
Miscellaneous Tales
Mysteries and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Mystery Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
Ne pariez jamais votre tête au diable
Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
Poe Reader
Racconti del terrore
Selected tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Tales--Mystery and Occultism/Horror and Death
Tales-Horror and Death
Tales: Volume III
Tales: Volume II
Tales of Mystery, Imagination, & Humour, and Poems
Tales of Mystery and Horror: Vol. III
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Tales of Suspense
Tales of Terror and Fantasy
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque III
Tales
Twelve Creepy Tales
Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Vol. II
Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two
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