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atomic-chronoscaph · 6 months

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Poe - art by Greg Hildebrandt (1986)

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 14 days

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Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, and Debra Paget -

Tales of Terror; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1962) dir. Roger Corman

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lisystrata · 2 months

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Illustration by Auguste Leroux based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar'

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moviemosaics · 7 months

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Tales of Terror

directed by Roger Corman, 1962

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mannyblacque · 2 years

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Five of Edgar Allan Poe s best-known stories are brought to vivid life in this heart-pounding animated anthology featuring Sir Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Roger Corman, and Guillermo del Toro.

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awolfinmycity · 2 years

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Okay, but like, did just _everybody_ have tuberculosis in Poe's time?

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thegothiclibrary · 1 year

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Spooky Stories to Consume Like Candy

Looking for some quick scares to get you in the mindset for Halloween? I’ve already written a post on ghost stories that you can read to get into the spirit of the season, but shades of the deceased aren’t the only things that will send shivers down your spine. Here are a few of my favorite stories featuring all sorts of other things that go bump in the night. These stories are all available…

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haverwood · 2 years

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Il caso Valdemar Ubaldo Magnaghi, Gianni Hoepli Italy, 1936

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weirdlookindog · 1 year

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Facts In the Case of M. Valdemar - Tales of Terror (1962).

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somethingsupwithdrac · 2 years

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22 June

I am so behind on Poe Daily, whoops. Just gonna do all of M. Valdemar at once, I guess.

I like the presentation of this one as a factual report on an actual occurrence, with the narrator opening things with a statement of his desire to present the facts succinctly, as he recalls them, in order to prevent any further misrepresentation. We wouldn’t want anyone getting things wrong about this totally true event that definitely happened.

Our narrator for this one is into mesmerism, which was definitely a whole Thing at the time this was written, and says that although there have been many experiments done, for some reason nobody has ever tried to hypnotize someone at the moment of their death. Yeah, narrator, can’t imagine why that might be. What a strange and inexplicable oversight!

Narrator, of course, decides to rectify this situation, as one does, in order to satisfy his curiosity about whether it would even work and if so how long one might suspend animation in a state of undeath. For his subject, he chooses his friend, monsieur Ernest Valdemar, a totally real guy whose name we all know and who wrote totally real books that we have definitely read. The description of his appearance is absolute gold, honestly. White facial hair and a head full of hair so black it looks fake and lower limbs resembling those of a man who also had tuberculosis and spent his whole life in ill health is certainly a look.

Narrator has previously successfully mesmerized him, for a given value of “successfully”. The “putting him to sleep via hypnosis” part worked, apparently, but the part where Narrator actually managed to control him in this state, not so much. He chalks that up to Valdemar’s illness, which, fair I guess? I don’t know how mesmerism works, maybe having your lungs ravaged by bacteria does make it more difficult. He’s surprisingly excited by Narrator’s proposal to use him as the subject of this latest experiment, in contrast to his attitude toward previous mesmeric endeavors, and agrees to send for Narrator about a day before the calculated time of his death. (He is surprisingly calm about this whole thing, which I suppose makes sense for a long term illness that you know isn’t going to end any other way.)

Narrator then tells us that about seven months ago he got the note that said ‘get over here, I’m on my way out, let’s do this thing.’ and went on over to get on with the experimenting. Valdemar already looks quite corpselike, and we get a great and surprisingly graphic and gruesome description of his condition. It’s all ossified lung tissue and tubercules and makes me eternally grateful for modern medicine. (Also, I see you being punny here with that repeated use of “dissolution”, Eddie. lmao) So Valdemar and the narrator have one more discussion about this whole thing and then the next night, as he’s dying and under the watchful eye of Valdemar’s docs, the mesmerization happens.

Narrator does his thing around eight and then continues at around ten, not much having seemed to happen in the interim, and about fifteen minutes after that, Valdemar slips into what is apparently a “perfect” mesmeric state. Narrator is, finally, able to exercise full control of Valdemar’s body in this state. Hey, good for him, look at our guy finally reaching the true height of his abilities! When he and the doctors and nurses who had been caring for Valdemar check in on him the next day he’s in exactly the same state, and Narrator finds that he has more complete control over Valdemar’s limbs than he’d had over any other subject.

And then he starts doing the “hey! are you sleeping? HEY, ARE YOU SLEEPING?” thing and Valdemar manages to answer with a sort of “Yes, ffs, I’m dying, leave me alone and let me die without pain”. The doctors agree that yeah, the man’s dying, we should all just stop bothering him and let it happen. He does, more or less, and the the real spooky shit starts to happen.

All the life obviously drains out of him, and his appearance becomes even more ghastly and horrifying than before, obviously dead, and yet he’s somehow still speaking. His voice has become terrible and hollow and sounds like it’s coming form somewhere far away, and he says that he has been sleeping and is now dead. Creepy! The med student in attendance faints dead away, which tbh is a pretty understandable reaction. Medical school prepares you for a lot of things, but talking corpses is not one of them as far as I’m aware. Narrator and co then leave Valdemar with a fresh set of nurses to watch over him and check in on him the next day to find him in the same state of undeath they had left him in.

It's now, the narrator says, at the time of writing this report, seven months on from that day, and Valdemar remains in that mesmerized state of undeath. That...seems a little unethical to me, but what do I know, I’m not a 19th century mesmerist. He and the doctors involved in this probably extremely questionable experiment have decided that it’s gone on long enough and it’s time to try to wake Valdemar up, because there’s no way that’s going to go horribly awry.

LOL at this: “ it is the (perhaps) unfortunate result of this latter experiment which has given rise to so much discussion in private circles” “Perhaps” unfortunate, narrator? Perhaps? Really? This is only a maybe to you? Also “ so much of what I cannot help thinking unwarranted popular feeling.” I dunno, man, I feel like it’s pretty warranted.

He starts to wake Valdemar up, and the first sign that something might be very slightly amiss is the ichor dripping from his eyes. (Sidenote, ichor is an excellent word that isn’t used nearly often enough.) He tries and fails to make Valdemar move his arm, and then asks Valdemar what he wants, to which Valdemar responds, more or less “I don’t care, just do something, I’m dead!” It was maybe not the best idea to leave him as he was for seven months, I’m thinking. Narrator of course decides to continue with waking him up, which ends...badly, to say the least. He thinks he’s about to succeed, and everyone else in the room also apparently believes he will as well, and then, uh, this happens:

“As I rapidly made the mesmeric passes, amid ejaculations of “dead! dead!” absolutely bursting from the tongue and not from the lips of the sufferer, his whole frame at once—within the space of a single minute, or even less, shrunk—crumbled—absolutely rotted away beneath my hands. Upon the bed, before that whole company, there lay a nearly liquid mass of loathsome—of detestable putrescence.”

Whoops. Guess they left ol’ Valdemar out a little too long, huh? That ‘speedy dissolution’ thing proved true in the end, though maybe not quite in the same sense that our guys meant it. I joke, but tbh the image of a body instantly rotting away into a puddle of sludge is honestly quite effectively horrifying, especially if you look at the whole thing from someone who was taken in by this and thought it was real.

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the-evil-clergyman · 2 years

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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, from Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Harry Clarke (1923)

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voluptuarian · 7 months

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Whenever I've heard discussion about Vincent Price's career, it's generally just been talk about his villain roles-- however, having watched more of his stuff now I feel like that's doing him an in injustice so here's an overview of some of the myriad Vincent Price Types™️

Charming but Otherwise Useless Playboy

His Kind of Woman

Laura

Life Is Hard for a Goth

The Tomb of Ligeia

The House of Usher

Just a Silly Little Guy

The Black Cat

The Raven

Evil But Make It Camp

The Masque of the Red Death

House on Haunted Hill

The Great Mouse Detective

House of Wax

I Am So Awful for Literally No Reason

Witchfinder General

Cry of the Banshee

The Haunted Palace

The Pit and the Pendulum

Man Who has Suffered More than Jesus

The Pit and the Pendulum

Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

#I haven't seen him as Richard III yet so I don't know if that would go in Evil But Make It Camp or Awful for Literally No Reason #I will continue to update this as I watch more movies #vincent price

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un-monstre · 1 year

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#edgar allan poe #poe fortnightly #I included the emojis to jog your memory in case you forgot what the stories were about #polls #literature

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mysterious-secret-garden · 9 months

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Harry Clarke - Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, from 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination' by Edgar Allan Poe, 1923

#Harry Clarke #dead #death #horror #M. Valdemar #death bed #fear

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lahija-del-molinero · 3 months

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Edgar Allan Poe – The Facts in the case of M. Valdemar, ilustración de Harry Clarke (1919)

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spectre-ship · 8 months

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sending Edgar Allan Poe a furious ask, demanding he tag Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar as unreality

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