{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5d40","title":"The Premature Burial","publish_year":1844,"publish_source":"The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","code":"the-premature-burial","words":5456,"image":"grave.jpg","image_alt":"A gravestone. Graphite filter.","genres":["gothic","horror"],"blurb":"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.","description":"A man tells stories of people suffering from that which scares himself most of all things, being buried alive. Suffering from catalepsy or something similar, he often falls into long comas and fears that one day he will be presumed dead and given one of these premature burials.","unique_cover":"A man screaming in a coffin buried underneath the ground.","cover_source":"Harry Clarke","cover_link":"https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/harry-clarke-s-illustrations-for-poe-s-tales-of-mystery-and-imagination-1919/","has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"veil","title":"Beyond the Veil","collection_type":"theme"}]}