The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
by Edgar Allan Poe

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a short story 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 this for a while before admitting it was a work of pure fiction in his "Marginalia".

Versions of The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar include:

The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case (December 1845) as it appeared in The American Review—joint first publication with The Broadway Journal (December 20, 1845)
La Vérité sur le cas de M. Valdemar in Histoires extraordinaires, 1856
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (April 1926) as it appeared in Amazing Stories
"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" by Edgar Allan Poe, in Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1935)

This work was published before January 1, 1927, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.