The Premature Burial
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Can you possibly conceive it?
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The unendurable
oppression of the lungs...

:09:09
the stifling fumes
of the damp earth...

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the rigid embrace
of the coffin...

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the blackness
of absolute night...

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and the silence...
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Iike an overwhelming sea.
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And then,
invisible in the darkness...

:09:28
but all too hideously real
to the other senses--

:09:31
the presence
of the conqueror Worm.

:09:34
Guy!
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I'm sorry.
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These are just morbid fantasies.
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I'm afraid not.
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Every member of my family...
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has met With a violent
and horrible death.

:09:50
I noW Wait my turn.
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HoW did your father die?
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Catalepsy.
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Do you knoW What that is?
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When it strikes...
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the victim gives every
outWard sign of being dead.

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But he's not dead. He's alive.
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I Was barely 13
When my father Was stricken.

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Doctor said
it was a heart attack...

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and there Was a funeral...
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and he Was sealed in this vault.
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That night...
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I heard him crying out--
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a pitiful, desperate cry.
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I begged With them.
I pleaded With them.

:10:35
"He's alive.
He's alive," I said...

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but no one would believe me.
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Because it wasn't true.
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It was!
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I heard him.
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In your mind.
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No, Kate.
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It Would be easier
for me to accept that.

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But I know the truth.
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God help me,
I knoW the truth!


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