The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by the American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also to a certain degree a hoax, as it was published without claiming to be fictional, and many at the time of publication (1845) took it to be a factual account. Poe toyed with the idea for a while before he admitted it to be a work of pure fiction in his marginalia. ---------- This story also contained in: [Basil Rathbone Reads Edgar Allan Poe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24951848W) [Complete Tales and Poems](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24964639W) [Creepy Classics](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8213021W) [Cuentos de terror](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14948575W) [Future Perfect](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3931584W) [Ghostly Tales and Eerie Poems of Edgar Allan Poe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14937997W) [Great Book of Thrillers](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8476718W) [Great Science Fiction About Doctors](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16045473W) [In the Shadow of the Master](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14938012W) [Masters of the Macabre](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14926831W) [Mysteries and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24955662W) [Novelas y Cuentos](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24935025W) [Penguin Book of Horror Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1835641W) [Seltsame Geschichten](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14938102W) [Short Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14938142W) [Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24834421W) [Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24695775W) [Tales: Mystery and Occultism](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14938139W) [Tales: Mystery and Occultism/Horror and Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24903243W) [Tales: Volume III](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24945061W) [Tales of Mystery and Horror: Vol. III](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19956142W) [Tales of Suspense](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41009W) [These Will Chill You](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7243354W) [Twelve Creepy Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24900303W) [Works of Edgar Allan Poe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14938136W) [Works of Edgar Allan Poe: In Five Volumes: Volume Two](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273463W)