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Buried Alive

Paperback • 2002 • English

Buried Alive

By Jan Bondeson

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About the book

Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales-just think of The Premature Burial-may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1800s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well as fiction, and fear in the populace was high. It was speculated, from the number of skeletons found in horrific, contorted positions inside their coffins, that ten out of every one hundred people were buried before they were dead. ...Show more

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9780393322224

Publisher

WW Norton Co

Published year

2002

Language

English

Original title

Buried Alive

Format

Paperback

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