The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

Name: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9781644080610

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Larry G. Jones

Unabridged: 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Audio Sommelier

Published: 07/15/2018

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

Prepare to be mesmerized by this tale by Edgar Allen Poe of pseudoscience gone wrong. On the brink of death, the friend of a notable mesmerist commits to an experiment of hypnosis prior to imminent death. As the tale progresses, the mesmerist describes keeping his friend in a fully mesmerized state without a pulse or breath. When Valdemar asks from his trancelike state to either be awakened or let go, the narrator tries to wake him from the grips of death – with dire consequences.

About Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, and literary critic who is credited with inventing the detective fiction genre and with contributing to the emerging science fiction genre. He began his literary career with the anonymous publication of a collection of his poems entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems. He then turned to writing prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming well known for his particular style of literary criticism. He served for a time on the staff of the New York Mirror, in which his poem "The Raven" was published. Poe's other well-known works include his stories "The Purloined Letter," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Mystery of Marie Roget."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter

This is one of the eeriest and most morbid stories I ever read from Poe. The narrator describes a mesmeric experiment on a dying man named Valdemar. The person acts in a peculiar way when in a mesmeric trance induced in the moment of death. What does the hypnotist do and how long can the mesmeric co......more

Goodreads review by Francesc

Terrorífico cuento sobre el hipnotismo. Poe escoge los temas que domina y crea un ambiente de asfixia que hiela el corazón. Terrific tale about hipnotism. Poe chooses subjects that he controls and creates an environment of suffocation that freezes the heart.......more

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, written in 1845, is an example of a story which we would now class as "horror", but which Edgar Allan Poe submitted to the public as an essay. It is a tale about "mesmerism",which was then a newly fashionable method of inducing a trance-like state. It develope......more