The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
pseudoscience
Animal magnetism
hoaxes
Mesmerism
Narration
Tuberculosis
Hypnotism
short story
Horror
Suspense
Fiction, general
Fiction
"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by the American author Edgar Allan Poe 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 claimi…
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