Author: Jan Bondeson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780393322224
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the 1800s, stories filled medical journals as well as fiction (Poe's "The Premature Burial") of people being buried before they actually died. Canvassing medical records of the time, the author presents an engrossing and witty history of the fear and facts of being buried alive. Illustrations.
Author: Edward Perry Vollum
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2023-10-26
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented" by Edward Perry Vollum and William Tebb is a thought-provoking and unsettling exploration of a macabre topic. The authors delve into the chilling phenomenon of premature burial, a fear that haunted many during the 19th century. Vollum and Tebb discuss cases of individuals mistakenly buried alive and propose methods to prevent such horrifying incidents. This book provides a fascinating historical perspective on the fear of premature burial and the medical and technological advancements aimed at addressing it. It is a gripping read for those interested in the macabre and the history of medical practices.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2012-07-25
Total Pages: 655
ISBN-13: 1460400275
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edgar Allan Poe’s stories and poems are among the most haunting and indelible in American literature, but critics for decades persisted in seeing Poe as an anomaly, or even an anachronism. His works, with their bizarrely motivated characters and mysterious settings, did not seem to be a part of the literature of early nineteenth-century America. Critics realize now, though, that Poe was even more a part of the contemporary American literary scene than many of his more “nationalistic” peers, and that in much of his work Poe was making commentaries on slavery and Southern social attitudes, technology, the urban landscape, political economy, and other subjects. This Broadview Edition includes a selection of Poe’s poems, tales, and sketches in such diverse modes of writing as tales of the supernatural and psychic conflict, satires and hoaxes, science fiction and detective fiction, and nonfiction essays on literary and social topics. These are supplemented by a selection of contextual documents—newspaper and magazine articles, treatises, and other historical texts—that will help readers understand the social, literary, and intellectual milieus in which Poe wrote.
Author: Walter R. Hadwen
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Published: 2013-03-28
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 1780940440
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Long out of print, this book was written by a prominent physician to reassure the many 19th century people who were worried about being buried aliveOne of the authors himself had a narrow escape with live burial, as his collaborator writes: "Dr. Vollum first became interested in the important question of Premature Burial in consequence of his own very narrow escape from live sepulture, having been pronounced dead from drowning, and prepared, for interment, when consciousness happily returned spontaneously." This edited version of the book extracts the most spine-chilling stories of narrow escapes and living burials from a mass of historical material. It includes such chapters as Animal and So-called Human Hibernation, Narrow Escapes from Premature Burial, Premature Burial of Doubtful Cases, Death-Counterfeits, The Danger of Hasty Burials, Sudden Death, Embalming and Dissections, and Count Karnice-Karnicki's Invention.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: SAMPI Books
Published: 2024-01-25
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 6561330781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Premature Burial", a man obsessed with the fear of being buried alive recounts known cases of premature burial. His fixation drives him to extremes to avoid his fate, until he confronts the reality of his greatest phobia in a shocking way.
Author: Richard Corben
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Published: 2014-10-14
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1630081159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of Edgar Allan Poe's classics adapted by master horror comics artist and Eisner Hall of Fame inductee, Richard Corben.
Author: William Tebb
Publisher:
Published: 2017-06-14
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9783337125370
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Premature Burial and How it May be Prevented - With Special Reference to Trance, Catalepsy, and other Forms of Suspended Animation is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.