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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar – 26:00 – Edgar Allan Poe 

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” a mesmerist, the narrator, hypnotizes a dying man named M. Valdemar at the moment of his death, leaving him in a suspended, horrifically decaying state for several months, unable to die even as his body visibly deteriorates, all while trapped in a state of consciousness and awareness.