Aug. 8, 2025
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
Prepare to be disturbed… In this chilling reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, we dive into one of Poe’s most gruesome and scientifically provocative stories. What happens when a man is mesmerized at the moment of death?...
Prepare to be disturbed…
In this chilling reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, we dive into one of Poe’s most gruesome and scientifically provocative stories. What happens when a man is mesmerized at the moment of death? And what unspeakable horror lies in keeping the dead in a trance?
Originally published in 1845, this short story pushed boundaries with its grotesque imagery and shocking finale—and still manages to haunt readers nearly two centuries later.
Whether you’re a fan of classic horror, gothic literature, or just looking for something truly unsettling… this tale will leave you breathless.
🕯️Narrated with eerie precision and atmospheric sound, this presentation brings Poe’s macabre masterpiece to life.
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In this chilling reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, we dive into one of Poe’s most gruesome and scientifically provocative stories. What happens when a man is mesmerized at the moment of death? And what unspeakable horror lies in keeping the dead in a trance?
Originally published in 1845, this short story pushed boundaries with its grotesque imagery and shocking finale—and still manages to haunt readers nearly two centuries later.
Whether you’re a fan of classic horror, gothic literature, or just looking for something truly unsettling… this tale will leave you breathless.
🕯️Narrated with eerie precision and atmospheric sound, this presentation brings Poe’s macabre masterpiece to life.
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🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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One of my favorite memories of scaring myself as a
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child was getting a compilation book of Edgar Allan Poe's
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stories from my elementary school library. It brought me so
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much fear and so much excitement. I remember running home
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from school with that book in my backpack as the
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sky was dark and a storm was coming. I was
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in my childhood living room, but I wasn't alone. I
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had a pizza and the books of Poe. Every so
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often I'll bring you a tale of Poe, and I
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hope it gives you that scary fun sense, just the
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same as it does for me. When the clock strikes midnight,
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the story will begin. The facts in the Case of M.
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Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe. Of course, I shall not
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pretend to consider it any matter for wonder that the
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extraordinary case of M. Valdemar has excited discussion. It would
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have been a miracle had it not, especially under the circumstances,
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through the desire of all parties concerned to keep the
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affair from the public, at least for the present, or
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until we had farther opportunities for investigation. Through our endeavors
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to effect this a garbled or exaggerated account made its
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way into society, and became the source of many unpleasant misrepresentations,
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and very naturally of a great deal of disbelief. It
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is now rendered necessary that I give the facts, as
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far as I comprehend them myself. They are succinctly these.
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My attention for the last three years has been repeatedly
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drawn to the subject of mesmerism, and about nine months
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ago it occurred to me quite suddenly that in the
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series of experiments made hitherto there had been a very
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remarkable and most unaccountable omission. No person has as yet
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been mesmerized in arcticulo mortis. It remained to be seen,
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first whether in such condition there existed in the patient
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any susceptibility to the magnetic influence. Secondly, whether if any existed,
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it was impaired or increased by the condition. Thirdly, to
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what extent, or for how long a period the encroachments
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of death might be arrested by the process. There were
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other points to be ascertained, but these most excited my curiosity,
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the last in especial from the immensely important character of
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its consequences in looking around me for some subject by
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whose means I might test these particulars. I was brought
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to think of my friend m Ernest Valdemar, the well
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known compiler of the Biblioteca Forensica and author under the
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gnome de plume of Isaacar Marx of the Polish version
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of Wallenstein and Gargantua. M. Valdemar, who has resided principally
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at Harlem, New York since the year eighteen thirty nine,
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is or was particularly noticeable for the extreme spareness of
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his person, his lower limbs much resembling those of John Randall,
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and also for the whiteness of his whiskers in violent
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contrast to the blackness of his hair, the latter, in
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consequence being very generally mistaken for a whig. His temperament
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was markedly nervous, and rendered him a good subject for
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mesmeric experiment. On two or three occasions I had put
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him to sleep with little difficulty, but was disappointed in
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other results which his peculiar constitution had naturally led me
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to anticipate. His will was at no period positively or
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thoroughly under my control, and in regard to clairvoyance I
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could accomplish with him. Nothing to be relied upon. I
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also attributed my failure at these points to the disordered
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state of his health. For some months previous to my
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becoming acquainted with him, his physicians had declared him in
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a confirmed thesis. It was his custom, indeed, to speak
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calmly of his approaching dissolution as of a matter neither
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to be avoided nor regretted. When the ideas to which
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I have alluded first occurred to me, it was of
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course very natural that I should think of M. Valdemar.
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I knew the steady philosophy of the man too well
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to apprehend any scruples from him, and he had no
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relatives in America who would be likely to interfere. I
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spoke to him frankly upon the subject, and to my
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surprise his interest seemed vividly excited. I say to my surprise,
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for although he had always yielded his person freely to
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my experiments, he had never before given me any tokens
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of sympathy with what I did. His disease was that
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character which would admit of exact calculation in respect to
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the epoch of its termination in death. And it was
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finally arranged between us that he would send me about
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twenty four hours before the period announced by his physicians
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as that of his decease. It is now rather more
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than seven months since I received from M. Valdemar himself
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the subjoint note Dear mister P, you may as well
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come now. D and F are agreed that I cannot
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hold out beyond tomorrow midnight. And I think they have
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hit the time very nearly. Valdemar. I received this note
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within half an hour after it was written, and in
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fifteen minutes more I was in the dying man's chamber.
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I had not seen him for ten days, and was
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appalled by the fearful alteration which the brief interval had
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wrought in him. His face wore a leaden hue, the
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eyes were utterly lustreless, and the emaciation was so extreme
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that the skin had been broken through by the cheek bones.
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His expectoration was excessive, the pulse was barely perceptible. He retained, nevertheless,
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in a very remarkable manner, both his mental power and
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a certain degree of physical strength. He spoke with distinctness,
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took some palliative medicines without aid, and when I entered
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the room was occupied in penciling memoranda in a pocket book.
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He was propped up in the bed by pillows. Doctors
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D and F were in attendance. After pressing Valdemar's hand,
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I took these gentlemen aside and obtained from them a
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minute account of the patient's condition. The left lung had
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been for eighteen months in a semi osseous or cartilaginous state,
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and was of course entirely useless for all purposes of vitality.
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The right in its upper portion was also partially, if
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not thoroughly, ossified, while the lower region was merely a
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mass of purulent tubercles running one into another. Several extensive
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perforations existed, and at one point permanent adhesion to the
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ribs had taken place. These appearances in the right lobe
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were of comparatively recent date. The ossification had proceeded with
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very unusual rapidity. No sign of it had discovered a
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month before, and the adhesion had only been observed during
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the three previous days. Independently of the thesis, the patient
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was suspected of aneurism of the aorta, but on this
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point the osseous symptoms rendered an exact diagnosis impossible. It
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was the opinion of both physicians that M. Valdemar would
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die about midnight on the morrow Sunday. It was then
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seven o'clock on Saturday evening. On quitting the invalid's bedside
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to hold conversation with myself, Doctors D and F had
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bidden him a final farewell. It had not been their
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intention to return, but at my request they agreed to
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look in upon the patient about ten the next night.
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When they had gone, I spoke freely with M. Valdemar
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on the subject of his approaching disillusion, as well as
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more particularly of the experiment proposed. He still professed himself
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quite willing and even anxious to have it made, and
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urged me to commence it at once. A male and
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a female nurse were in attendance. But I did not
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feel myself altogether at liberty to engage in a task
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of this character with no more reliable witnesses than these people,
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in case of sudden accident might prove. I therefore postponed
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operations until about eight the next night, when the arrival
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of a medical student with whom I had some acquaintance,
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mister Theodore L, relieved me from farther embarrassment. It had
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been my design originally to wait for the physicians, but
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I was induced to proceed, first by the urgent entreaties
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of m. Valdemar, and secondly by my conviction that I
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had not a moment to lose, as he was evidently
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sinking fast. Mister L was so kind as to accede
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to my desire that he would take notes of all
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that occurred, And it is from his memoranda that what
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I now have to relate is, for the most part,
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either condensed or copied verbatim. It wanted about five minutes
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of eight. When taking the patient's hand, I begged him
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to state as distinctly as he could to mister L
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whether he m Valdemar was entirely willing that I should
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make the experiment of mesmerizing him in his then condition.
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He replied, feebly, yet quite audibly, Yes, I wish to
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be mesmerized, adding immediately afterwards, I fear you have deferred
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it too long. While he spoke. Thus, I commenced the
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passes which I had already found most effectual in subduing him.
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He was evidently influenced with the first lateral stroke of
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my hand across his forehead. But although I exerted all
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my powers, no farther perceptible effect was induced until some
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minutes after ten o'clock, when doctors D and F called
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according to a point. I explained to them in a
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few words what I designed, and as they opposed no objection,
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saying that the patient was already in the death agony,
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I proceeded without hesitation, exchanging however, the lateral passes for
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downward ones, and directing my gaze entirely into the right
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eye of the sufferer. By this time his pulse was imperceptible,
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and his breathing was statoris, and at intervals of half
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a minute. This condition was nearly unaltered for a quarter
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of an hour. At the expiration of this period, however,
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a natural, although a very deep sigh, escaped the bosom
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of the dying man. The statoris breathing ceased, that is
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to say, its steretorousness was no no longer apparent. The
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intervals were undiminished. The patient's extremities were of an icy coldness.
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At five minutes before eleven, I perceived unequivocal signs of
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the mesmeric influence. The glassy roll of the eye was
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changed for that expression of uneasy inward examination, which is
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never seen except in cases of sleep walking, and which
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it is quite impossible to mistake. With a few rapid
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lateral passes, I made the lids quiver as in incipient sleep,
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and with a few more I closed them altogether. I
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was not satisfied, however, with this, but continued the manipulations
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vigorously and with the fullest exertion of the will, until
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I had completely stiffened the limbs of the slumberer. After
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placing them in a seemingly easy position. The legs were
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at full length, the arms were nearly so, and reposed
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on the bed at a moderate distance from the loins.
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The head was very slightly elevated. When I had accomplished this,
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it was fully midnight, and I requested the gentleman present
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to examine m. Valdemar's condition. After a few experiments, they
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admitted him to be in an unusually perfect state of
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mesmeric trance. The curiosity of both the physicians was greatly excited.
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Doctor D resolved at once to remain with the patient
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all night, while doctor F took leave with a promise
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to return at daybreak. Mister L and the nurses remained.
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We left m. Voldemont entirely undisturbed until about three o'clock
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in the morning, when I approached him and found him
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in precisely the same condition as when doctor f went away.
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That is to say, he lay in the same position.
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The pulse was imperceptible, the breathing was gentle, scarcely noticeable
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unless through the application of a mirror to the lips.
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The eyes were closed naturally, and the limbs were as
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rigid and as cold as marble. Still, the general appearance
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was certainly not that of death. As I approached m. Valdemar,
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I made a kind of half effort to influence his
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right arm into pursuit of my own, as I passed
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the latter gently to and fro above his person. In
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such experiments with this patient I had never perfectly succeeded before,
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and assuredly I had little thought of succeeding now. But
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to my astonishment, his arm very readily, although feebly, followed
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every direction I assigned it with mine. I determined to
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hazard a few words of conversation m Valdemar, I said,
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are you asleep? He made no answer, but I perceived
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a tremor about the lips, and was thus induced to
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repeat the question again and again. At its third repetition,
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his whole frame was agitated by a very slight shivering.
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The eyelids unclosed themselves so far as to display a
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white line of a ball. The lips moved sluggishly, and
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from between them, in a barely audible whisper, issued the.
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Words yes, asleep, now, do not wake me, Let me die.
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So I here felt the limbs and found them as
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rigid as ever. The right arm, as before, obeyed the
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direction of my hand. I questioned the sleep waker again,
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do you still feel pain in the breast? M valdemar.
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The answer was now immediate, but even less audible than before.
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No pain, I am dying.
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I did not think it advisable to disturb him farther
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just then, and nothing more was said or done until
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the arrival of doctor F who came a little before
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sunrise and expressed unbounded astonishment at finding the patient still alive.
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After feeling the pulse and applying a mirror to the lips,
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he requested me to speak to the sleep waker again.
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I did so, saying, M. Valdemar, do you still sleep
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as before. Some minutes elapsed. Ere a reply was made,
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and during the interval the dying man seemed to be
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collecting his energies to speak. At my fourth repetition of
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the question, he said, very faintly, almost inaudibly, Yes, still asleep, dying.
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the physicians, that M. Valdemar should be suffered to remain
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undisturbed in his present apparently tranquil condition until death should supervene,
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and this, it was generally agreed, must now take place
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within a few minutes. I concluded, however, to speak to
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him once more, and merely repeated my previous question. While
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I spoke, there came a marked change over the countenance
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of the sleep waker. The eyes rolled themselves slowly open,
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the pupils disappearing upwardly. The skin generally assumed a cadaverous hue,
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resembling not so much parchment as white paper, and the
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circular hectic spots which hitherto had been strongly defined in
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